Title of Work – BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS by Boo, Katherine.
Genre – Narrative, Non-fiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity a narrative, non-fiction written by The Pulitzer Prize Winner - Katherine Boo. This book was published in the year 2012 and captured the lives of people in a Mumbai slum – Annawadi from 2007 to 2011. The slum was settled in 1991 by laborers brought from southern Indian state Tamil Nadu to repair a runway at the international airport. When they decided to stay near the airport, they cleared wet, snake-filled, an uninhabited small swamp area across the street from the international terminal and Annawadi – the land of annas, born. The stark contrast between the lifestyle of …show more content…
Most of the people of Annawadi were very poor and only six of the slum’s three thousand residents had permanent jobs. Due to poverty and no income, few residents ate rat, frog and scrub grass. Husain and his family leads a successful life through their son Abdul’s hard work, who has built a successful recycling business. Other Annawadians, like their neighbor Fatima (the “One Leg”) jealous about the success of Husains. Husains family helps the Fatima family and celebrate the Muslim’s festival together, but the tension between two families continues to grow. When the Husains revamping their hut, verbal argument started by Fatima led to the arrest of Zehrunisa. To threaten the Husain family, Fatima self-immolates herself with cooking oil and the Husains were blamed for provoking Fatima to commit suicide. Fatima eventually dies after few days of treatment at hospital, three members of Husain family – Abdul, his father Karam, and his sister Kehkashan imprisoned. Husains were beaten and suffered a lot in prison, before eventually released on parole and brought to trial. During this period, Abdul couldn’t work steadily and Husains family also started to struggle as other families in
Genre – Narrative, Non-fiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity a narrative, non-fiction written by The Pulitzer Prize Winner - Katherine Boo. This book was published in the year 2012 and captured the lives of people in a Mumbai slum – Annawadi from 2007 to 2011. The slum was settled in 1991 by laborers brought from southern Indian state Tamil Nadu to repair a runway at the international airport. When they decided to stay near the airport, they cleared wet, snake-filled, an uninhabited small swamp area across the street from the international terminal and Annawadi – the land of annas, born. The stark contrast between the lifestyle of …show more content…
Most of the people of Annawadi were very poor and only six of the slum’s three thousand residents had permanent jobs. Due to poverty and no income, few residents ate rat, frog and scrub grass. Husain and his family leads a successful life through their son Abdul’s hard work, who has built a successful recycling business. Other Annawadians, like their neighbor Fatima (the “One Leg”) jealous about the success of Husains. Husains family helps the Fatima family and celebrate the Muslim’s festival together, but the tension between two families continues to grow. When the Husains revamping their hut, verbal argument started by Fatima led to the arrest of Zehrunisa. To threaten the Husain family, Fatima self-immolates herself with cooking oil and the Husains were blamed for provoking Fatima to commit suicide. Fatima eventually dies after few days of treatment at hospital, three members of Husain family – Abdul, his father Karam, and his sister Kehkashan imprisoned. Husains were beaten and suffered a lot in prison, before eventually released on parole and brought to trial. During this period, Abdul couldn’t work steadily and Husains family also started to struggle as other families in