Visual Writing and Art of Narration in Ruskin Bond’s The Room on the Roof

Abstract

‘If there’s one name that is synonymous with children’s literature in India, It’s Ruskin Bond’.  The Room on the Roof is a classic novel penned by Ruskin Bond, an eminent and versatile Indian English author. This paper gives a glimpse of Bond’s work providing an insight into his visual writing where he portrays the beauty of Dehradun, the Himalayan foothills through the eyes of the protagonist, Rusty. Rusty struggles with concerns of identity, belonging, and cultural differences as he progresses through adolescence. Bond has presented a detailed account of the experiences and challenges  that he faced during his journey to establish his own personality as an individual while he was a teenager. In this sense, the novel is an autobiographical account of the author's life.  This paper also focuses on Protagonist transformation and growth  from the perspective of bildungsroman novel.  The paper is going to discuss Bond’s  amusing writing style and his simplistic approach while describing a place, a season or a person in the novel.