Remarks of the intro for Katvitha and Mustafa

The tension build slowly in the story of Katvitha and Mustafa. From the beginning the stop is made with little fanfare the items collected in the passengers shoes. While the range of emotions ranges from calm to desperate weeping the situation is just the same it goes from weary traveling to a moment of danger that slowly builds like the heat that rises from the overcrowded berth. It sets up the story into a tale with a sense of danger. Here are innocent people that have no ill towards anybody coming towards a wall of danger with a man with a machete and a gang of men with rods of metal.

The sense of danger is accomplished by flashbacks towards the life of the woman before the train hijacking. With the notion that if she lived instead of Vinod, her husband that she would survive because the marriage was boring.

The author sets up future parts of the story in the introduction by establishing the relationship between the passenger. The couple with the mother of the husband. The father and son and Katvitha and her husband Vinod. This dynamic between the passengers raises the tension because the bonds that the passengers share speak towards their reaction to the events that are happening. The stage is set from the beginning as a method of who is being taken away and who gets to survive. In the beginning Katvitha as the narrator notes that the has room for 8 not the 13 people that are currently on board the berth and that the doors are being shut off from each other that established the scene as one where the people are slowly going to be either switched or taken off the berth.

The introspection that she gives towards Vinod's eyes is also an introspection of what is about to occur and the reaction that each of the passenger is going to have towards the end of the story. That Violence in its pure form takes a person and transforms them into either a survivor or a victim. It leads the reader into thinking how far are the bandits going to go before they leave. How much pain and suffering are the passengers going to suffer before the release into the normal world or is their last memory a train burning in between stops.