Behind The Beautiful Forevers By Annawadi Analysis

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Katherine Boo not only describes unhappiness and poverty in Annawadi but also shows how structural poverty and inequality produced by globalization regulate the life in “Behind the beautiful forevers”. Global market capitalism strikes the root of the poor people’s anxious lives who suffer from worldwide economic slump, non-regular workforce, and the rat race. Annawadi is a slum of Mumbai in India and is surrounded by the airport and five splendid hotels. It is hard for Annawadians to get jobs in the big city so they dig up waste and sell recyclable trash for living. Abdul’s younger brother, Mirchi, put it “Everything around us is roses and we’re the shit in between (Prologue, p.xii).”
Inequality is not only a problem of Mumbai but any cities
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Abdul and his father are falsely accused for Fatima’s death and Zehrunisa, Abdul’s mother, contacts with many people to clear the false charge. Katherine Boo describes how local politicians, the police, brokers try to get kickbacks in the meantime of all this happening without making any adjustments about corruption in “Behind the beautiful forevers”. Besides, she describes reality in Annawadi such as people’s relationships and emotions through many characters - Abdul is a garbage picker and muslim teenager, Asha tries every possible means for a better social status, Sunil is a hinduism teeanger who sells garbage for living, and Manju studies hard in order to be an elite in the global world. They all try desperately hard to restrain their …show more content…
India is under the monopoly capitalism and the government of India hires the minimum number of employees in order to maintain the system and the salary for the civil servants are far from enough which leads to corruption. As a result, corruption is everywhere across public security, education, medical care, legislation that should protect the public in India. The corruption in the government offices creates a bigger corruption in society as a whole. As corruption is rampant in India, morality disappears and people do their utmost to survive to find their ways in desperate lives and do not feel bad about becoming selfish if necessary. They do not complain about the problem of capitalistic system because they know there is nothing weak individuals can do to fix the structural problem. Annawadians do not complain but resign themselves to their fate. They do not doubt if the existing system is perfect but they rather admit that the rich get richer because they worked very hard. Thus, Annawadians keep picking garbage for their

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