First Expository EssayNameInstitutional AffiliationWhat Does the Skeleton Represent in Tagore?Rabindranath Tagore is among the popular sons of India. He was a genius who decorated everything he touched. Tagore was a great dramatist, poet, composer and an excellent short story writer. Tagore’s short stories and plays depict how the human mind works in various perspectives. In his literary work, the skeleton, he employs both straightforward and direct prose in describing people with the aristocratic classes as well dealt with directly (Mukherjee, 2013). Tagore also uses pathos, and the audience or readers fathom that they have been exposed to a whole new world with a capacity to empathize. This short story represents aspirations and hope, frustrations and disappointments, as well as sorrows and joys in life by showing how people try to navigate through life, amidst their difficult situations.BodyIn this story, a human skeleton is hanged and used in teaching osteology. The skeleton talks about a man who engages in a conversation with a skeleton ghost. Tagore uses skeleton as a representation of the human suffering (Mukherjee, 2013). It is from the skeleton that a person realizes how a beautiful body that had