Justified And Ancient

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The short story “Justified and Ancient” is a British and was written by Simon Lewis. Penguin Books in Fortune Hotel published it in 2000. The main theme of the story is globalization and the relationship between the rich western world and the poor Third World countries. This theme is also shown in the relationship between the characters in the text. In the short story they are in a small village in India. The village were a cluster of wooden huts and it was placed on the side of a mountain. It would take half a day of hiking up the mountain to get to the village. Punjee had to ask permission for him and Lee to enter the village. The village had a temple and a very little store and inside that store was a boy who were sitting and listening to music on an old Walkman. Lee is an Englishman. A man with white skin and long hair hanging down his back. He can’t wait to get out of the village again and back to Delhi. Lee is a smoker . And he does not care to see the rich culture of India, all he wants is to buy some cheap cannabis. The President of the village think that he might be homosexual, because he has got log hair, but Lee tells him that he has got a girlfriend back home in England, and she is divorced and has got a child with her old husband. He thinks that perhaps they are going to marry some day, but perhaps not . As he says "I'm not gay. Back home, I live with a woman. She already has a child with another man, but they are divorced now, though. Perhaps we'll marry some day, perhaps not. This is the way we do things in England”. The Indian man, who is following Lee to the village, is named Punjee. He is with Lee to show him the way, and talk to the Indian people for Lee. Lee does not speak hini, so he needs a translator. Punjee seem to know the president of the village quite good. Because the woman who also described Lee thinks about those times when
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