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love-hate relationship with nature speaker's love for mother (also family) Questions given: Is the description of the mother similar to that of other Indian mothers? Is this poem about the conservation of nature? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Flowering_Tree:_A_Woman's_Tale The day after the first rain,  Monsoon. for years, I would home in a rage, Interesting. What are you so mad about, speaker? for I could see from a mile away From a mile away, on the way home our three Red Champak Trees  OUR three red champak trees had done it again, meaning they've done it before had burst into flower and given Mother  her first blinding migraine first but not last; blinding because of the extent of the pain she's in in of the season these migraines last the whole season with their street-long heavy-hung yellow pollen fog of a fragrance The pollen grains have made the air thick like fog - in fact the air IS yellow with it's...

To begin with, two things - firstly, I'm disappointed in you, Khushwant Singh, and second, this chapter is less about India than it is about Tyson's love for Martha. What's important in this sad little short story is: Indians' views on foreigners and vice versa Tyson's love for Martha the four types of foreigners - lovers, haters, half-haters and question marks (people whose opinion others don't know about) about the NARRATOR, not author And that's all there is to it.  :/