Read the excerpt below and answer the question. “He looks peculiar,” [Kali] said frankly. “Not a bit normal. Who ever heard of pink eyes in a human child?”

. . . ”Just a matter of colouring,” [Selvam] said, “or lack of it. It is only a question of getting used to. Who is to say this colour is right and that is not?”

In at least one hundred words, discuss the denotative and connotative meanings of both characters’ statements in this excerpt from Nectar in a Sieve. How do connotative meanings establish a meaningful tone in the text?