The Room On The Roof By Ruskin Bond Summary

Written when the author was seventeen it brilliantly describes the hopes and passions that capture young minds and hearts.

The room on the roof by ruskin bond summary.

It was bond s first literary venture. Mr harrison wants him to be groomed with english values and to avoid contact with indian influences. The room on the roof is a novel written by ruskin bond. He is very lonely and sad and even though he lives with his guardian mr.

It is in one such picturesque place that rusty the protagonist of ruskin bond s the room on the roof lives. The novel revolves around rusty an orphaned seventeen year old anglo indian boy living in dehradun. He lives with his guardian mr harrison a missionary and his wife in dehradun. The room on the roof.

The book looks into typical adolescence concerns like. A moving tale of love and friendship it has endured as bond s most beloved novel. Due to his guardian mr harrison s strict ways he runs away from his home to live with his indian friends. Bond wrote the novel when he was seventeen and won the john llewellyn rhys memorial prize in 1957.

The room on the roof bond s first literary venture that won him the famous john llewellyn rhys memorial prize in the year 1957. Written by bond as a 17 year old the story of the room on the roof is a semi autobiographical work. The room on the roof is ruskin bond s masterpiece of adolescence and coming of age. Room on the roof is about an orphaned boy named rusty who has no real family after his parents death.