Analysis Of A Coward By Premchand

There are so many countries around the world, thus there are many different cultures and traditions that makes every one of these countries unique and special. Because cultures and traditions makes some places seem special than others, people tend to take pride on these traditions and honor them, unfortunately that’s not the case for most of the citizens of almost every country around the world, especially if we were talking about the youngsters. Premchand’s short story. “A Coward,” provides a poignant illustration of how cultural values and assumptions become more enlightened from one generation to the next so which causes the youth to act differently and new how older generations attempt to trap younger generations in their restrictive ways …show more content…
I’m not saying that youth should always follow their parent’s religion even if they do not agree with it, religion is different than culture, actually a person must take a really long time to think about the religion that he or she is going to follow, but the culture and tradition of that that person reflects the country that he came from, so he should always take pride in coming from a country that have a culture of whatever makes it unique. The story shows how the parents are being very strict on their son/daughter and how they do not actually care how their kids will feel afterwards or what might become of them afterwards, but instead they care about what honor will they have afterwards and what other people will think about them, like when Perma’s mother said when she brought the idea of marrying Keshav, “Let her, but if she has her way, how can you face the dishonor?” (Premchand). Instead of saying this, her mother should make her understand why their religion doesn’t allow them to marry someone from a different religion, and if Perma still insists, they should not go on and lock her in the home thinking that that would solve the problem, instead the mother and the father should talk to her about the case and be on her side and teach her how to actually get to know a person and understand him and learn if he is a worthy person to marry so that they can lead a happy life in the future, so that she could really know about Keshav and find out whether if he could become a good husband and a good father which in the story we find out that he actually is not and his love that he claimed to have for Perma wasn’t true love but instead a relationship that he perhaps thought was actually a true love because he had a few feelings towards