INTRODUCTION TO THE PLAY -Post Early for Christmas

INTRODUCTION TO THE PLAY ( POST EARLY FOR CHRISTMAS ): 1 hour

A.  USE THE CARTOONS AND INITIATE A DISCUSSION

cartoon

kɑːˈtuːn/

noun

1. 1.

   a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine.

   "the minister faced a welter of hostile headlines and mocking cartoons"

   synonyms:

   caricature, parody, lampoon, satire, travesty

Group work 1.THE MESSAGE OF THE CARTOONS ?

Let the students select and match with the cartoons from the list supplied by the teacher in all the groups.( click here to download the list )

a).The cartoonist is saying goodbye advising the common man to take care of himself /  He says he was trying to take care of the common man and speak for him all his life as a cartoonist. / Those who work for the common man in India deserve the Heaven.(one of these,some of these,all of these )


b).Politicians are unaware of the miserable condition of the poor in India / In fact the politicians only act like supporting the poor../ The politicians are hypocrites and ambitious.(one of these,some of these,all of these )

c)The common man in India does not have the basic facilities and still he survives./ It is a miracle that poor people survive in India / Scientists should have thought about improving the conditions upon earth before planning to go to the Moon.(one of these,some of these,all of these )

d).We are crazy after the best things in life / The advertisements have a bad effect on children / When celebrities run after money and appear  as brand ambassadors, they lose their identity and exist only as  persons who like the so called best things in life.(one of these,some of these,all of these )

2.THE COMMON CHARACTER IN THE CARTOON ?-ROLE; REPRESENTS WHOM ?

Represents the ordinary people in India; their feelings / experiences / struggle to live or protest


3.Cartoons especially such as those by RK LAXMAN convey the pangs and anxieties of ordinary people-Discuss and write

( pang paŋ noun

plural noun: pangsa sudden sharp pain or painful emotion."Lindsey experienced a sharp pang of guilt"

1. synonyms:

   pain, sharp pain, shooting pain, twinge, stab, spasm, ache, cramp)

    )

Use the messages discussed above and write

more ideas....His "Common Man" character, featured in his pocket cartoons, is portrayed as a witness to the making of democracy.Anthropologist Ritu G. Khanduri notes, "R. K. Laxman structures his cartoon-news through a plot about corruption and a set of characters. This news is visualized and circulates through the recurring figures of the mantri (minister), the Common Man and the trope of modernity symbolized by the airplane 

B : What are cartoons for .......( humour + criticism +right to protest +the spirit of  democracy + thought provoking + a tool for change ........) Why do people draw cartoons ?




C.What do you know about R. K. Laxman

 additional reading

R. K. Laxman was born in Mysore in 1921.^[5] His father was a headmaster and Laxman was the youngest of six sons (he had a sister as well^[6]);^[7] an older brother is the famous novelist R. K. Narayan. Laxman was known as "Pied Piper of Delhi".^[8]

Laxman was engrossed by the illustrations in magazines such as The Strand, Punch, Bystander, Wide World and Tit-Bits, before he had even begun to read.^[9] Soon he was drawing on his own, on the floors, walls and doors of his house and doodling caricatures of his teachers at school; praised by a teacher for his drawing of a peepal leaf, he began to think of himself as an artist in the making.^[10]Another early influence on Laxman was the work of the world-renowned British cartoonist, Sir David Low (whose signature he misread as "cow" for a long time) that appeared now and then in The Hindu.^[11] Laxman notes in his autobiography, The Tunnel of Time:

I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room – the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite

— R. K. Laxman^[12]

Laxman was the captain of his local "Rough and Tough and Jolly" cricket team and his antics inspired the stories "Dodu the Money Maker" and "The Regal Cricket Club" written by his brother, Narayan.^[13] Laxman's idyllic childhood was shaken for a while when his father suffered a paralytic stroke and died around a year later, but the elders at home bore most of the increased responsibility, while Laxman continued with his schooling.^[14]

After high school, Laxman applied to the J. J. School of Art, Bombay hoping to concentrate on his lifelong interests of drawing and painting, but the dean of the school wrote to him that his drawings lacked "the kind of talent to qualify for enrolment in our institution as a student", and refused admission.^[15] He finally graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Mysore. In the meantime he continued his freelance artistic activities and contributed cartoons to Swarajya and an animated film based on the mythological characterNarada.

^{MORE IN.....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._K._Laxman}

^{( from wiki pedia)}

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THIS FILE