The Village in the Jungle by Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf’s village in the jungle is a fascinating novel written about the life of the peasants in Sri Lanka during the British rule. The story takes place in a remote jungle village called “Baddegama”. The writer recalls the strange happenings not only within Baddegama but also in its surroundings. The story is between a high cast family and a low cast family and how a foreign man who comes to the village influences these two families. The story goes on describing how the low cast family is suffered by the high cast family and their friends in the village.

In 1980, Sir Lester James Peries released a superb film based on this well-known novel, naming it “Baddegama”. The film helped the novel to be as real as it was in the reader’s …show more content… 

Very fair…... and looking into her eyes goes round and round very quickly on the floor.”

Another feature I noticed in the book is that the descriptions involved the switching of characters, showing omniscient, so that different points of views are shown to the reader. This is the main and the most important technique used by Woolf to keep the readers eye on each and every letter of the novel. It amplifies the curiosity and helps the reader to understand what exactly is happening in each scene of the story. The film does this very mildly but can say it is a good attempt to give the reader more sensible feelings so that each scene was an exciting one. This is seen clearly in the court scene where Silindu and Babun are taken to court by Bebehamy and Fernando.
“The parties and witnesses in the case were taken at once to the court-house. They waited…... a small square wooden platform surrounded by a wooden balustrade on three of its sides”, this indicates that the narrator sees all this and it makes the reader look in the narrators point of view. 

The following lines show how Silindu and Babun sees the court and the writer let the reader experience the state of the men
“Nothing happened all the morning. Babun and Silindu squatted down…, and they were led out and made to stand up against the wall on the left of the bench.”

The other obvious feature I noticed is that the film lacks the dramatic irony that the book exposes. The writer