What is the role of Tembu in the story the tiger in the tunnel?
Tembu is the twelve-year-old son of baldeo, a tribal. whose
family lives about three miles away from the small station, a
signal stop, where he works as a khalasi and night watchman. tembu
sometimes sleeps with his father in their hut near the station, but
on most occasions he stays in the village to help his mother and
younger sister. the night baldeo is killed by the tiger while
attending to his duty, tembu offers to go with him but is asked to
stay in the hut and go back to sleep. on hearing the sound of the
approaching train, he again wakes up and keeps waiting for his
father. this shows he has learnt the ways of his father and is
already grown up enough to understand the call of duty and his own
responsibilities.
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