Behind The Beautiful Forever Chapter Summary

In the three books Behind the Beautiful Forever’s, Disposable People, and Sustainability there were many similarities that connected them. It was very interesting how there were so many similarities in three books with different overall messages. One topic that all three books had in common was poverty. Poverty is an issue that affects all cultures, in all parts of the world no matter what race, gender, or sex. In each of these books there are different groups of people in different parts of the world all dealing with different circumstances, but all facing the same one issue. Poverty is a multifaceted concept that can affect all walks of life, and it was very interesting to see this concept expressed in three different ways. In Behind the Beautiful Forever’s the annawadians were among one hundred million Indians who had been liberated from poverty in 1991. However, many annawadians were still very poor even if it wasn’t considered poverty. The main character Abdul kept his family right above the poverty line by selling …show more content…
the common denominator was not race, but poverty. The book spoke of the slavery occurring in places like Thailand and brazil. In Thailand young women would be conned into being in “contract” slavery and forced to work as prostitutes to settle their families’ debt. Slavery grows best in extreme poverty because the price of keeping a slave must be less than or equal to the cost of hiring free labor. Slaveholders believed that having slaves was a contribution made to the economy by providing jobs even though it was free labor. They would even go as far to say that they were lifting the debt bonded girls out of rural poverty. Rural poverty; meaning surviving off as little as five hundred baht ($20) a month. Absolute poverty most times meant eating insect infested food with no place to stay which is what a slave would have to endure if he/she were to leave their slave