Aunt Mira and Her significance in the novel

Aunt Mira played a very crucial role in the children's upbringing. She came to the family invited by Mrs Das to take care of Baba. But as she was there she did much more than that. She not only took care of and raised Baba she raised all of the other children as well. She was the mother figure which they needed in their life and very much lacked. She taught them things, read to them, played with them and spent the most time with them. She was the closest thing the children had to a mother even though they did not know it. Aunt Mira basically mothered Baba as well she taught him everything he knew without her he would be incapable of anything.

Also, the children provided a very special thing for Aunt Mira.They were the family and children and life that she never got the oppurtunity to have. They were the little ones that she couls care for, love, teach things and raise. Also in the case of Tara, they were people that could want her, need her and love her. All of these things she was lacking.

The children contributed to her downfall because she loved them and needed them and in the end they left her. Tara, the child she adored the most left her first without acknowldgement. She never turned back and even wrote to Mira Masi. Because of this sudden neglect Aunt Mira went into a state of shock and thus began to turn crazy.