station where a "crowd of people pressed to the carriage doors", the "porters moved them back" isolating them from the train and leaving the boy "alone in the bare carriage". When the boy reaches the bazaar "nearly all the stalls were closed and the greater part of the hall was in darkness". The whole scene is not what the boy expected and has left him in the dark again.
             The boy tries to make a lot of connections with other characters in this story but fails. The boy living with his aunt and uncle tries to tell his uncle about the things that he is interested in but his uncle is too preoccupied with his own life and does not pay attention to his nephew's stories. The night of the bazaar his uncle comes home late and when he is reminded of the bazaar he admits "he had forgotten". The uncle never bonds with the nephew or gives him advice except for tidbits and phrases like "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". The boy does not seem to have any fatherly figure o
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