Question

What does Ruku find in her pumpkin patch and what is its meaning?

Nectar in a Sieve

A. Green mold; Ruku’s pumpkins are infected and inedible.
B. A chicken; Ruku kills and plucks the chicken for the family dinner.
C. A cobra; the snake foretells a warning of danger to come.
D. A poisonous spider; the spider bites Ruku causing her to become ill.

Answer 1

The answers is: C. A cobra; the snake foretells a warning of danger to come.

In the story “Nectar in a Sieve” when Rukmani is pregnant with Ira, she is working in her garden when she gets scared because there is a cobra in her pumpkin patch, she thinks that the snake might killed her, this is an omen for a coming danger

Answer 2

The answer is C. Ruku found a Cobra in her pumpkin patch and this signifies that there is an upcoming danger to come. From the story, the terror and panicked that she experiences diminish because her counselor was trying to protect her from the snake.