\u201cI am beginning to understand<\/b> some things about her and I think that that she does not like things in nature to be hurt. To her, the flower and the plant would both be suffering because they were separated <\/b>from each other\u2026 It would be as if its arm had been cut off or something. I think it would upset her greatly and set her back.\u201d (69)<\/b><\/p>\n
This quote is the response Tyler gives to the gardener Mr. Hector after he asked Tyler to ask Miss. Ramchandin if she would be interested in gardening. I found this quote very ambiguous. In one instance Tyler displays how protective he is over Miss. Ramchandin and how much he truly cares for her mental and well-being but in another instance this can be interpreted as Tyler considering Miss. Ramchandin\u2019s past and how current things affect her.<\/p>\n
In the begging of the quote Tyler says \u201cI am beginning to understand<\/b> some things about her.\u201d I think Tyler feels he is slowly but surely beginning to understand Miss. Ramchandin\u2019s through her body language, noises, and their eye contact interactions. Along with their interactions I think that by Tyler narrating Miss. Ramchandin\u2019s story he is getting to know a part of her that no one else can understand nor identify with. With that said Tyler feels he is obligated to be Miss Ramchandin\u2019s voice and speak for her. In his mind if he no one anyone else will.<\/p>\n
Further along in the passage he says \u201c\u2026the flower and the plant would both be suffering because they were separated<\/b>.\u201d I think the word separate is they key word in this sentence. When he refers to the flowers being separated I think Tyler was also alluding to Miss Ramchandin\u2019s being abandoned and separated from her mother as young girl. He then says \u201cI think it would upset her greatly and set her back.\u201d<\/b> I think he said that because Miss. Ramchandin has been through a great deal of trauma in her life and he doesn\u2019t want her to overthink of gardening to bring back up old feeling that she experienced as a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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