The story begins in medias res when the protagonist Neville Ewan, a guidebook author, wakes up in a villager’s home in Nepal. The first five lines show that the story is written in a third person singular and that the narrator is intrusive because Neville’s thoughts and feelings are presented. Later on in the story Neville tells about the circumstances that lead him to the village Drughat.

Just as Neville wakes up he is handed a glass of tea, the villager Thakali wants him to feel comfortable. Neville feels refreshed and revived because the surroundings have an effect on him. “Neville took in the scene, memorising details”(line 10), here he starts drawing a picture of the scenario in his mind and it is also in this scene where the fire motif first appears. The fire is associated with warmth and comfort. Neville wants to take notes for his book but cannot given that he has not been honest in tel

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