The story takes place in Mumbai, India. Westernized trade has increased over the past few decades, but this has taken a toll on the people in one of India's major cities, Mumbai. Annawadi (a slum) is filled with disease, poverty, and crime. Annawadians will do anything to get out of the slum and into the middle class, even if it means breaking the law and hurting their neighbors. Furthermore, many people envy one another for their worth and accomplishments.
The character’s morals and beliefs effect their decisions greatly, especially with corruption their opinions are very different. The difference is that some choose to use it while others do not. The presence of corruption in the Annawadi slums, translates our society today where it is virtually everywhere. “To be poor in Annawadi, or in any Mumbai slum, was to be guilty of one thing or another. Abdul sometimes bought pieces of metal that scavengers had stolen. He ran a business, such as it was, without a license. Simply living in Annawadi was illegal, since the airport authority wanted squatters like himself off its land.” (Katherine Boo, Chapter 1) The wall that …show more content…
" 'We try so many things,' as one Annawadi girl put it, 'but the world doesn't move in our favor.' "(Katherine Boo, p. 219) Within the content of the book, the reader can make outside connections to a couple of topics such as Gender, etc. "She returned home with just what she'd wanted: a fake school record showing that Abdul Hakim Husain, a former student, was sixteen years old. Her son, who hardly been a child, would at least now be treated like one by the criminal justice system." (Boo 123) Males have been given this almost god-like position and dominance compared to women in societies like that of Annawadi and this ideology is passed on to kids and seen within the sad lives widows are forced to
The character’s morals and beliefs effect their decisions greatly, especially with corruption their opinions are very different. The difference is that some choose to use it while others do not. The presence of corruption in the Annawadi slums, translates our society today where it is virtually everywhere. “To be poor in Annawadi, or in any Mumbai slum, was to be guilty of one thing or another. Abdul sometimes bought pieces of metal that scavengers had stolen. He ran a business, such as it was, without a license. Simply living in Annawadi was illegal, since the airport authority wanted squatters like himself off its land.” (Katherine Boo, Chapter 1) The wall that …show more content…
" 'We try so many things,' as one Annawadi girl put it, 'but the world doesn't move in our favor.' "(Katherine Boo, p. 219) Within the content of the book, the reader can make outside connections to a couple of topics such as Gender, etc. "She returned home with just what she'd wanted: a fake school record showing that Abdul Hakim Husain, a former student, was sixteen years old. Her son, who hardly been a child, would at least now be treated like one by the criminal justice system." (Boo 123) Males have been given this almost god-like position and dominance compared to women in societies like that of Annawadi and this ideology is passed on to kids and seen within the sad lives widows are forced to