Realism in a story | How to use realism in a story

Realism in a story 

Realism | Magical Realism

This story is taken from a famous YT channel “Animated Stories”. It is just a realism story example. The link to the channel is given below:

Brief Summary of the story “Poor peoples Lockdown”:

The short story revolves around a protagonist "Billy” who lived in a typical urban area in slums. He was a daily wager and earns bread and butter to feed his family.

After COVID-19 hits the world, and turned into pandemic the daily wagers lost their jobs. Billy did efforts to gain any job but failed to do so and at last a policeman helped him but after some other days when did not get any source of income he committed suicide with his family.

 

  Themes of Realism:

1.     City
2.       Marriage and family
3.       Class conflict
4.       Morality and religion
5.       Philosophy

Realism in story writing:

City:

The story setting is placed in an outskirts of the city in the slums.

Marriage and family:

He has 2 sons and a daughter and one wife. He has a small family and their religion was Christanity.

Class conflict:

Class conflict was obvious in story. The lockdown was not same for have and haven’ts.

Morality and religion:

The protagonist was a christian by birth and it is clearly elucidated thought the event of Eid.

His moral values were firm and subtitle as one can observe his attitude with his family and society. He was hardworking but the situation compelled him to commit suicide due to hunger.

Philosophy:

The philosophy of life is depicted in the story that "Humans nature is controversial, humans have determination but the situations haunt people and eventually, poor has no companion.