Breakfast

What impression does the writer get form the life of the poor people.

       Breakfast is a simple story of village workers who lead a peaceful life without being perturbed by the horrors of future of the doubts of the coming events. They believe in the maxim cat drink and are merry because tomorrow you will be no more. They make the most of the present even when the black clouds of the great slum of 1929 are bowering over them. These people are living in a tent and they are working in the fields of cotton. The woman with her baby is working in home and she is performing her domestic duties with great satisfaction. The little also seems to be peaceful as it does not interfere with the mother’s work and silently goes on nursing. Thus the whole atmosphere is pure peaceful and pleasing. The writer is deeply impressed by the simplicity of the situation. Purity of living becomes the central idea in his mind. The amazing fact is that the poor people have no complaints against anyone. They live in the honest labour and God’s mercy. Thus the story gives a message that real happiness lies in contentment faith on God and fair feeling about the fellow being.

Write a note of family of village workers who enjoyed their simple life?

       Breakfast is a fine piece of literature that elaborates the concept of real happiness. The writer has shown that simple living sincere thinking and trusting in God may lead us to peace and pleasure. Abundance of wealth and plenty of needs disturb human life and they become restless. All these point have been clarified through the simple story of cotton pickers. Beside the gray tent an iron stove is burning and a young woman dressed in cotton clothes is busy is cooking. She is taking a small baby in a crocked arm and the baby is nestling it head under the waist. A young man comes out to the tent and an old man follows him. They are dressed in new blue dungarees. Their faces are sharp and they resemble in facial feature. Both have stubble beards and are different in colour. They are quietly looking at the lightening east and they warm their hands on the stove. They sit on the ground and eat their breakfast happily. The old man thanks God through simple words, God Almighty it is good” these three adults and the fourth minor are the symbols of peaces pleasure contentment and satisfaction.