Leela’s Friend: Summary

• Mr Sivasanker hires a new servant called Sidda after his daughter, Leela, approves of him 
• Leela becomes attached to Sidda more and more every day. Leela made Sidda play games with her, she enjoyed playing teacher with him; this shows role-reversal as Sidda is uneducated
• One day Leela and Sidda go out shopping and when they return Leela’s mother notices Leela’s gold chain is gone
• Leela’s mother accuses Sidda of stealing the necklace and threatens to call the police but when she goes out of the room for a second he vanishes into the night
• That night Leela questions where Sidda is and blames herself and her family
• A few days late the police catch Sidda and brings him to the household
• Sidda still denies stealing the chain but they do not believe him and he is taken back to the station
• A few days later Leela’s mother finds the chain in the tamarind pot and Leela explains she put it in there a few days earlier before Sidda was taken, naïve to the trouble she has caused
• Her father says he will go down and tell the police that Sidda is innocent but he says he still wouldn’t have a criminal in the house

Pieces of Silver: Summary

• The headmaster demands money for the previous headmaster’s retirement and humiliates students who do not/cannot bring it in
• Clement comes home and asks for the money from his parents who refuse
• His sister listens/comforts him and gives him advice on how to raise the money and get back at the head teacher
• They go out busking for money and receive a large amount when they end up going to the previous headmaster’s house
• Clement comes in to school the next day and pays for himself and all the other students who couldn’t pay either

Clement is meant to be a symbolic figure like Jesus. Jesus died to save us, Clement saved his fellow students.