This chapter shows us how this anguished family is trying to find innumerable solutions to move a step forward and get out of the poverty and the hunger that surrounds them Chapter 3: Unwillingly and reluctantly, Lila found her mother has got high fever. The younger girls ran to the house next door to ask their neighbour Hira-bhai if she could help their mother but instead she sent them the magic man to help on getting the evil spirits away. Chapter 4: As action was needed in this family and that no one else in it fit to act, Hari was the one who should take this action.
Biju was a rich man living in Thul and had many accessories in his house. Some people called him smuggler. He was making a large boat which had deep freeze and a powerful engine. Chapter 5 and 6: Hari didn’t know that Biju’s boat was ready to be launched as he was away with the men of the village who had gone to Bombay to make an agreement about not having to lose their land and to stop building these factories which will be useless to the villagers because they won’t take a chance to have jobs there. At Thul, Biju’s boat was waiting for the tide to come up and launch the boat. Chapter 7: Hari reached Bombay .
He wondered around the black horse for several hours. He got very hungry and thirsty. Later he went to see Sahib. Sahib was the people who came from Bombay and Hari had served that family when they came for a holiday to Thul. The family wasn’t there. A man called Hira Lal helped Hari around Bombay. Chapter 8: In this chapter Hari asks Jagu to work in the Shree Krishna Eating House. He also posts a letter to Thul so that Lila is not worried about him. Chapter 9: For Hari, the work wasn’t easy in that firelit kitchen of the Sri Krishna Eating House that seemed to grow hotter and hotter and never to cool down even at night.
Jagu kept his promise of paying Hari a rupee a day which came to seven rupees a week, good wages for a young by new to the work and Hari was grateful for it. Chapter 10: The monsoon is coming; the first and most important sentence in this chapter. As the kindest and most helpful man, Mr. Panwallah, a watch mender, who owns a shop besides the Shree Krishna eating house asked Jagu for a day off for Hari to take him to a promenade and bought him a coconut, the boy felt as if he’s a child once again.
Chapter 11: Passing by tough and hard days in Bombay and coming back to Thul, Hari wanted really badly to go back to his village where his family stayed. Mr. Panwallah kept telling him that the ferry doesn’t travel to Rewas in the rainy season and that he should wait till the rains are over. Hari learnt watch mending from Mr. Panwallah decided to open a shop in Thul. Chapter 12: Happily, Hari came back to Thul by bus not by ferry. Jagu and Mr. Panwallah having bought him a ticket jointly for the bus. Mr.
Panwallah had said goodbye to him at the shop door; quietly slipping him another ten rupee note as a farewell present. The last chapter: It was the Diwali morning; Hari After bringing her from the hospital, they reached their home. Lila prepared different type of sweets. Hari noticed that his father stopped drinking toddy. Her mother also was now able to stand on her own. CONCLUSION The village by the sea appears to be a sad story in the beginning but gradually the condition of Hari’s family improves and it becomes a happy family in the end.