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Mira is one of the children in Ravi’s family. Mira is described as “motherly,” and at the beginning of the story she stops a fight between the boys and figures out a game to determine who will be “It” in their game of hide and seek. At the end of the story, when Ravi emerges from his hiding spot, Mira tells him to stop crying and says him that if he wants to play in their singing game, he should get at the back of the line. The game of hide and seek both brings out and reinforces Mira’s role as the mother figure of the group.
Mira Quotes in Games at Twilight
The Games at Twilight quotes below are all either spoken by Mira or refer to Mira. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Games at Twilight
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“Please, ma, please,” they begged. “We’ll play in the veranda and porch—we won’t go a step out of the porch.”
“You will, I know you will, and then—”
“No—we won’t, we won’t,” they wailed so horrendously that she actually let down the bolt of the front door so that they burst out like seeds from a crackling, over-ripe pod into the veranda, with such wild, maniacal yells that she retreated to her bath and the shower of talcum powder and the fresh sari that were to help her face the summer evening.
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“Don’t be a fool,” Raghu said roughly, pushing him aside, and even Mira said, “Stop howling, Ravi. If you want to play, you can stand at the end of the line,” and she put him there very firmly.
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Mira Quotes in Games at Twilight
The Games at Twilight quotes below are all either spoken by Mira or refer to Mira. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Games at Twilight
Quotes
“Please, ma, please,” they begged. “We’ll play in the veranda and porch—we won’t go a step out of the porch.”
“You will, I know you will, and then—”
“No—we won’t, we won’t,” they wailed so horrendously that she actually let down the bolt of the front door so that they burst out like seeds from a crackling, over-ripe pod into the veranda, with such wild, maniacal yells that she retreated to her bath and the shower of talcum powder and the fresh sari that were to help her face the summer evening.
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“Don’t be a fool,” Raghu said roughly, pushing him aside, and even Mira said, “Stop howling, Ravi. If you want to play, you can stand at the end of the line,” and she put him there very firmly.
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