The central figure of the novel "Sooryana Kudure – Venkata " is shunned by his son and wife for his easy-going attitude that does not take him anywhere. Venkata is a non-achiever who could not achieve any material or monetary success in his life. However, he is a simpleton who does not take life's suffering to his heart too much. He likes to see life as living in the love of "Amma (or mother-goddess)". In all sufferings of life, he has the child-like curiosity about the smallest things in life like a "grasshopper (Sooryana Kudure)". The evening after his son revolts and leaves the house, he would be engrossed in a sight in his yard a grasshopper shining in the sun's light.