He Conquered The Jungle novella by.Dr.keshava Reddy

He Conquered The Jungle

Dr.keshava Reddy

He conquered the jungle is the translation of"Athadu Adavini Jainnchadu"( అతడు అడవిని జయీంచాడు) written by Dr.Keshava Reddy in Telugu. I have read it in Telugu. The novella is fantastic. The main themes of this 112-page novella are the struggle for existence and the survival of the fittest.

The protagonist is an old swineherd who, as night descends, sets out to the nearby jungle in search of his missing pregnant sow. The story is set completely in the jungle. It starts at sunset and ends at sunrise.

The author portrayed an outcast old man as an extraordinary man. Keshava Reddy imparts superhuman qualities to the old man to achieve the protagonist’s mission. He is the main human character among the animals in the jungle. The writer has not named the central character. The old man‘s only mission is to find the sow and its new-born piglets and get them back to the shed. Hero is a fearless man and a great warrior. He has tremendous faith in himself and in his strength. He never gives into the evil forces. He fights relentlessly against fierce jackals to protect his loved sow and piglets. The old man, on his journey on the moonlit night, recalls his past heroic battles and experiences to dedicate himself to his only mission.

Sukka Sow is well known for its foolishness and irrationality. The old man’s three great enemies are cowardice, weakness, and inability. He has careless attitude to hygiene. The old man is injured severely by the sow, which is not in a position to identify a friend or foe. The tragedy in the story is that the protagonist kills the babbler bird, which helps him to locate the bush in which the sow delivers its piglets, and also kills his beloved sow with his own hands in order to save its piglets from the pack of jackals.

There are plenty of dichotomies like old age –boyhood, kindness-cruelty, dark-light, victory-defeat. The jungle is the symbol of beastliness; everything kills everything else in some way. It symbolises the survival of the fittest. Nobody knows the dark secrets and mysteries of the jungle. It is an unsolved mystery to humans.

At the end of the novel, the war was over, and he was defeated in his attempt to save Sukka. Though he was unable to protect Sukka the sow and its piglets, his fierce fighting made him a great warrior.

The story reminds us of Hemingway’s "The Old Man and the Sea."

The saying "strength is life, weakness is death" of Swami Vivekananda is apt.

   

This story is un-put-downable. I would definitely recommend this one.

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