Slumdog Millionaire
Celia Roth
6-4-13
Per.6
Jamal and Salim
Jamal and Salim are two very different people. The two boys are brothers and come from the same background and started out very much alike. Every path you take in life will entirely affect your future. They both began as poor, underprivileged, Indian boys. They live in the slums of Mumbai with each other and their mother. Salim is a couple years older than Jamal, but at the beginning of their childhoods, they lived very similar lives. As time goes on, the two boys take very different paths and become two very different people. Salim decides to live a life of crime while Jamal makes an honest living. These paths lead to very different outcomes in their lives. Jamal ends up winning millions on a game show, while Salim kills himself while working for a gangster. It is easy to say that Salim is just a person who made all the wrong choices, and Jamal is the typical good guy or hero of the story. In order to understand the outcome of their lives, you must first understand the experiences each of them went through.
The brothers start their lives in the slums of Mumbai. During the Bombay riots, Jamal, and Salim’s mother is killed. They are now left to fend for themselves. As the boys flee the riot, they meet another girl named Latika; she is another child from their slum. Salim doesn’t really want to take her in, but Jamal decides to make her the third musketeer; a character from a childhood book. The three kids are found by Mamam, who tricks them into becoming beggars for money. Jamal, Salim, and Latika find out that Mamam is blinding kids to create blind, singing beggars, and they escape. They manage to escape and hop on a department train. Latika doesn’t quite make it, and grabs on to Salim’s hand. Salim purposely lets go, and Latika is captured again by the gangsters. Salim and Jamal make a living travelling on top of trains, selling goods, picking pockets, working as dish washers, and pretending to be tour guides at the
6-4-13
Per.6
Jamal and Salim
Jamal and Salim are two very different people. The two boys are brothers and come from the same background and started out very much alike. Every path you take in life will entirely affect your future. They both began as poor, underprivileged, Indian boys. They live in the slums of Mumbai with each other and their mother. Salim is a couple years older than Jamal, but at the beginning of their childhoods, they lived very similar lives. As time goes on, the two boys take very different paths and become two very different people. Salim decides to live a life of crime while Jamal makes an honest living. These paths lead to very different outcomes in their lives. Jamal ends up winning millions on a game show, while Salim kills himself while working for a gangster. It is easy to say that Salim is just a person who made all the wrong choices, and Jamal is the typical good guy or hero of the story. In order to understand the outcome of their lives, you must first understand the experiences each of them went through.
The brothers start their lives in the slums of Mumbai. During the Bombay riots, Jamal, and Salim’s mother is killed. They are now left to fend for themselves. As the boys flee the riot, they meet another girl named Latika; she is another child from their slum. Salim doesn’t really want to take her in, but Jamal decides to make her the third musketeer; a character from a childhood book. The three kids are found by Mamam, who tricks them into becoming beggars for money. Jamal, Salim, and Latika find out that Mamam is blinding kids to create blind, singing beggars, and they escape. They manage to escape and hop on a department train. Latika doesn’t quite make it, and grabs on to Salim’s hand. Salim purposely lets go, and Latika is captured again by the gangsters. Salim and Jamal make a living travelling on top of trains, selling goods, picking pockets, working as dish washers, and pretending to be tour guides at the