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BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS (SUCCESS Money Indian rich people in a…
BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS
OPPORTUNITY
Education and corruption are opportunities to make money.
Life is controlled by the opportunities you are born with and make.
There aren't many options for the poor.
Quotes/ examples
Fatima takes the opportunity to harm the Hussains
Manju uses education as an oppporutnity
Being Muslim limits your opporuntinties due to racial discirmination.
'Annawadi was magnificently positioned for a trafficker in rich people's garbage'.
'She thought she could make a handsome profit from the Hussains'.
LIFE
Life shouldn't be taken for granted
Value
Life is a life
Life and death is a continuous process.
Life goes on as a whole, despite the deaths of individuals.
Anything that isn't death.
Huilding a future beyond slums
hope brings life and
Life is fragile
Envy of others lives
Even a terrible life is still a life.
Quotes/ examples
'sewage and sickness looked like life'
Sunil provided for his family during crisis.
Asha trying to improve her life.
Manju is charismatic to others to improve their lives.
Age is unknown- well at least for Abdul.
'He was sixteen years old, or maybe nineteen'.
INEQUALITY
The slums aren't fair
Money
Religion can make you an outcast
Why is it so hard for the poor to improve their lives?
Quotes/ examples
'Muslims were still excluded'
Fast track court
Death
Common part of life
People were not desnesisteised
The deaths of others made them want to unite for change.
Suicide
Murder of friends
Common for infants to die- Fatima's baby
Acceptance?
Life and death is a continuous process.
Covered up by society.
Sign of failure
Fatima didn't consider that lighting herself on fire may cause death.
Disposability
Lives not seen as value
much alike possessions
Normalisation to an extent.
Insignificance of individuals
Society neglects them.
Quotes/ examples
Kalu wasn't valued by society when he died. They claimed that he had tuberculosis.
multiples murders in a similar area
Abdul isn't disposable to his family
Fatima drowning her daughter- she doesn't grieve
Road boys realised that their lives weren't worth any interest.
'He felt small, sad and useless'. (Sunil)
Sickness
Sewage lake
Lack of clean resources
Inadequate healthcare
Fear of helping sick people for possibility of them being contagious. Divides them.
Quotes/ examples
'sewage and sickness looked like life'
Being unable to work- Karam
Infection killed Fatima
'used syringe'
'Rusty metal contraption'.
Mattress 'sopping with urine'.
Sunil is malnourished and worried that he won't growth properly. Stunted growth. Tires to use this to gain sympathy, doesn't work often.
Karam's illness worsens when he is arrested.
Mr Kamble begs Asha for help, but doesn't have enough money to convince her that he is worthy.
'Health related worries'.
Suicide
Escape
Evading hopelessness
Giving up
End suffering
End restriction
Burning yourself under the command of another is a criminal offence in India.
Quotes/ examples
Rat poison
Death for Meena was 'the one decision about her life she got to make'.
Sanjay commits suicide by eating rat poison because he was upset about Kalu's death.
Suicide on the farms
Fatima's suicide represents all the pain and suffering of being woman and mother in the slums.
'Inciting a person to attempt suicide is a serious crime in India'
Suffering
Life in Annawadi isn't easy.
Quotes/ examples
Fatima didn't consider that lighting herself on fire may cause death.
'her greatest fear, that she'd die doing the things she was doing now: sweeping floors'.
Hussains are beaten and starved in prison.
'Dongri home is living hell'.
'i don't want to take a dying woman's curse'.
HOPE
For a better future
For happiness
No hope= disheartenment
Can't progress without hope
Driving motives for beliefs and actions
Finding hope in the darkest of places
Hopeful mindset can transform lives
not be absorbed and drowned by negativity
Pessimism degrades purpose and meaning.
Rising above hopelessness
Even in times of turmoil some can rise above what is bad.
Quotes/ examples
Beyond the materialistic and monetary loss of the Fatima ordeal, the hussains lost hope.
Kalu is an ambassador for hope- fun.
Mirchi doesn't want to be a garbage sorter.
'Mirchi dreams of working in a luxury hotel'. Somewhere clean.
Zehrunisa hoped to move her family to the block of land- escape discrimination.
'Karam tried to be optimistic'.
Abdul relies more on realism than hope.
Asha hopes to become respected, noticed and acknowledged. Female slumlord.
Kalu hopes that his risks will pay off.
Sunil hopes to grow.
Manju tires to educate the young Annawadian girls with the hope that it will improve their lives.
'Annawadians considered such desires inappropriate for a cripple'.
'She wanted to be respected and reckoned attractive'.
SURVIVAL
Main priority
supporting family
Base needs
Asha believes a dying man ought to pay a lot to live.
Delbilitating
Safety and security
Annawadi is vulnerable to change
Fighting amongst racial groups
Threat to demolish slums and make more room for airport construction work
Food and drinking water not to be taken for granted.
Somewhere to sleep at night.
The threat of the congolmerate that owns the slums to demolish them.
Risks
People will sacrifice to Iie
dangerous circumstance
Quotes/ examples
Ledge
Asha will sacrifice anything
Kalu risks his life by scavenging in dangerous places.
Road boys
Sunil makes money by stealing from construction site at airport.
Quotes/examples
Abdul can't afford to die
Karam relies on his fmaily to survive
MORALS
Survival can often take priority
Honesty
Not wanting to buy stolen rubbish
Lying to get ahead
Role of religion and Hindu Muslim resentments
Motivation for actions
Governs belief of what's right/wrong
The difficulty of acting ethically in an unethical culture/world
Tarnished morals
accepting the unacceptable.
How difficult it is to act ethically in an unethical world.
Quotes/ examples
Abdul wants ideals and belief and execution of justice
Manju becomes aware, despite her shielded childhood.
Even through attempting to adhere to morality, Manju ends up aiding her mother in her corruption schemes in endeavor of success.
Abduls goal to refuse to 'buy anything he thought had been stolen.
In times of adversity 'moral judgements (were) irrelevant'.
Zehrunisa performs ritual burial for Fatima despite what happens. Demonstrates some morality.
Abdul gains a sense of virtue and morality at the prison.
Abdul tries to stay out of trouble all his life.
Rather than being a fugitive, Abduls honesty leads him to turn himself into the police.
Sonu tries to convince Sunil to be more honest, hard-working and hygenic.
'He placed all such dolls in his trash pile tit's down'.
' The teenager was a notch above the scavengers'. (Abdul).
INDIA VS WORLD
India is poor thing
living above poverty line
materialism
First world countries vs slums
Despite the fast paced nature of the slums, this doesn't necessarily translate to the global situation at hand.
Boo teaching us about India
Boo is form a first world country much alike the desired audience for the novel.
Making it look like their country has risen above the poverty line is more about reputation than actual care for the slum dwellers.
Quotes/ examples
'BEAUTIFUL FOREVER BEAUTIFUL FOREVER'
tiles
fancy hotels
Trees- symbolise life
'Pink condominiums and glass office towers had shot up near the airport terminal'.
'Almost no one in this slum was considered poor by official Indian benchmarks'.
'One corporate office was named simply 'more''.
'Luxury hotel across the water'.
'Abdul and his neighbours were squatting on land that belong to the AIrports Authority of India'.
' 'Five extravagant hotels'.
ESCAPE
Inability to make decisions
no progress despite hard work
Desire to build better future and
facing reality
Suicide
Corruption and education are ways to escape poverty.
Quotes/ examples
'The full enjoy'.
Erase ex
Games shed
Drugs and alcohol
Wanting ' a home somewhere that was not Annawadi'.
POLITICS
Political leaders taking advantage of others
Asha gaining political attention and status
People with money didn't care about elections, they just payed for what that wanted. Whereas voting was a voice for the slum dwellers- mattered.
Corruption
Dishonesty
Lies
Takes away opportunities from those in need,
An easier option.
Can be both a catalyst for poverty, and a way out.
Quotes/ examples
'Corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained'.
'Of course it's corrupt'.
Asha's corruption benefitted her kids- they became complacent.
Asha means to 'secure her family's future'.
Police are corrupt.
'The police would trap him, just as Fatima had done'.
'Sunil was afraid of the police'.
Manju doesn't approve of Asha's corrupt dealings.
'The great web of corruption'.
EDUCATION
Way to escape slums
Asha encourages manju to get education to improve their family situation
Expensive
More accessible for the rich than the poor.
Quotes/ examples
Potential springboard out of the slums'
Asha makes Manju get an education so it can improve the family situation.
Abdul didn't get much of a chance with education.
Mirchis hope lies in education.
Escaping the slums
Abdul didn't have 'the mind for school'.
'An awkward, uneducated boy may still be capable of righteousness'.
Because Abdul works so hard, Mirchi can continue his education.
Prakash is the smartest person in Annawadi and struggles to study in the chaos of the slums.
' what he knew about,mainly was trash'.
Hatred
Jealousy of others
Revenge
Good vs evil
Quotes/ examples
As she lay in hospital Fatima plotted revenge
Fatima targets the strongest player in the family, The one that if lost will have the greatest impact on them
Vengeful attack
'economic envy'
Asha's neighbours began to hate her.
'Wished his family I'll because of the old hindu-muslim resntments'.
Cynthia 'Despised Abdul's family ever since her own family garbage business failed'.
'At the heart of envy was possibly hope.
'Fatima had put her in a trap'.
'I will put your family in a trap'.
'Your skin is burned, you've done this stupid thing, and still you heart is full on vengeance.
Competition
Fighting against each other to get ahead.
Wanting more than your fair share.
Poor competing
Fight for survival
Blaming others
Taking risks
Boo's notion of getting together that they don't understand.
Using others failures to get ahead,
They all stay in poverty because they are ferociously competing against each other.
Quotes/ examples
Water and ice.
Asha prized her competitiveness
Though not quite directly, the disagreement between the Hussains and Fatima is based on competition. As the Hussains were making their way to middle class and in a sense felt superior.
Annawadians don't mind how well they are doing, as long as they can compare themselves against others and be better than them.
'We are so alone in this city'.
SUCCESS
Money
Indian rich people
in a perfect world, hard work should correlate to success but this isn't always the case.
Seeking 'better lives'
Measuring success against others failure.
Money
Fancy building
Jobs
Advancement
Motives centralised around profit
doing anything for wealth, status and power
Quotes/ examples
Ironically Manju appears to have different motives than Asha in regards to money.
Yet Manju accepts her mother's actions, because they have gotten them to the position that they are in.
Asha does nothing without profit in mind.
Zehrunisa bribes a policeman into trying Abdul as a minor.
Asha sleeps with politician and policemen for money,
Terrorist attacks ruin tourist industry.
Corruption
People that are dishonest an resort to Injustice measures often have more external success.
getting ahead doesn't always correlate to perseverance.
Pulling yourself into middle class.
Corruption is easier.
Quotes/ examples
'Ride the cities inexorable corruption into the middle class'.
'For a thousand rupees, Asha said, she'd convince Fatima to make no further trouble'.
'you pay early, it costs you less later on'.
Insecurity
success is not guaranteed
even once obtained
if you are unsuccessufl, then inscuetiy prevails becuase you may not be able to afford to live.
Not a fixed concept
Small successes may promote a false idea of big change.
Unpredictable
Quotes/examples
The crumbling brick wall. The bricks we sustaining their success and hopes.
'readiness of the bricks to disintegrate'
'Instability fostered ingenuity'- not always the case though.
'Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself....then the wind blows you east'.
'over time, the lack of a link between effort and result could be debilitating'
Other quotes/examples
'Building a future in this stinking place'
Asha's registered non-profit business,
'Their dirty money'.
'She thought she could make a handsome profit from the Hussains'.
Water and ice
Ice is better than what it is made of.
Abdul wants to be ice.
The choices made determine whether you are ice or dirty water,
RELATIONSHIPS
Boo builds a relationship with the Annawadians
Asha's arranged marriage lead to a negative relationship with her husband.
Privacy
Not much privacy from neighbours
invested interest
close houses
confinement and
prison experience
Because they are all so close, everyone is intimately involved in each others lives.
Quotes/ examples
'Everyone, everywhere complained about their neighbours,
'The walls between huts we thin and shared'.
Arranged marriage
Strips people of decisions
Strips people of identity
Quotes/ examples
Meena
Being sick of 'what the world had to offer'
Friendship
Reflects trust
Quotes/ examples
Meena and Manju have a strong friendship
Abdul and Sunil bond through their mourning for Sanjay.
Poverty
poor lived off the waste of the rich
poor need to stay poor for the rich to survive
poor struggled through the sea of waste
Finding value in what the rich discard.
Undercity didn't impact rich
30 Indian slums- Annawadi was the focus
Trying to keep dignity intact.
The poor make up a lot of India's society.
Fighting for resources, space and respect.
Sometimes the poorest have the most the give.
Quotes/examples
'Shitting out the consequences of bad choices'
Abdul was a 'trafficker in rich people's garbage'
' Simply living in Annawadi was illegal'.
'Makeshift settlement'
'Desire for a 'slum free Mumbai'
The slums were 'holding back the fortunes of a nation'
'but no one felt sorry for him anymore
'even looking at garbage made Mirchi depressed'
'Too be poor in Annawadi, or any Mumbai slum , was to be guilty of one thing or another'.
'Annawadi itself was nothing special'
'The things rich people threw away'.
''The walls between the huts were thinking and shared'.
Asha takes advantage of antipoverty programs.
'Only six of the slums three thousand residents had permanent jobs'.
'A few residents trapped rats and frogs and fired them for dinner. A few ate scrub grass at the sewage lake's edge'.
'Buying and selling to recycles the things that richer people threw away'.
'spangly blue haze by the sewage lake'.
'People choked slumlanes'.
''Three thousand people had packed into, or on top of, 335 huts'.
'To be poor in Annawadi, or any Mumbai slum was to be guilty of one thing or another'.
Priya is 'one of the poorest girls in Annawadi'. Yet she helped Fatima out by giving the water.
FATE, CHANCE AND SELF
Circumstances change
Why people do the things they do
Motives
Controlling factors
Not just one factor impacts life.
What dictates life- combo?
Chance/luck
Unpredictability
anything could happen
circumstances vulnerable to change
still essential to surviving the slums
bad luck can disintegrate hard work.
Quotes/ examples
'the train that hadn't hit you, the slumlord you hadn't offended, the malaria you hadn't caught'
The fragility of the Hussain's success was vulnerable to bad luck.
'Fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged'.
Self
Building your own future
Personal choice
Most important one
Everyone wants to improve
Psychological outlook
Internal processes
Decision making
Making the most of the harsh circumstances embedded in Annawadi life
Accepting situation at hand.
Perception
Outlook is influential on quality
Realism
Quotes/ examples
Both the poorest and the richer (like asha-potential slumlord) want to improve their circumstances.
Kalus ability to 'manufacture fun'
'He believed his own dreams properly aligned to his capacities'.
Fate
accepting the path religion made for you
uncontrollable
Quotes/examples
Born into the slums isn't a decision, it is a reality.
Born into a family where education was affordable positioned Manju with more opportunities.
TRUTH VS LIES
Truth
Boo's account is nonfiction
Distorted truth
Power should lie in the truth
Manipulating the truth.
Quotes/example
Manju memorising- represents dishonest education.
'it was too late to tell the truth'.
'We might hope the witness would care for us and tell the truth'.
'She cried for the manageable thing-in-itself the loss of that beautiful quilt'.
Lies
People lie to get ahead
those with power lie and get away with it.
Provided a gateway out of the slums
Dishonesty
Quotes/example
The wall is to hide Annawadi from the rich international airport customers.
Zehrunisa bribes a policeman into trying Abdul as a minor.
'The police are keeping my mother because of the lies that you told'.
'Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags'.
STATUS
Hierarchy
Social progression
Easier to get things the higher up you are we
Manipulating those below you
People wanted to matter
Power and status are linked.
Abuse of power
Quotes/examples
Fatima mattered when she was in hospital. Increased her self worth. Deposited dodgy syringe and stuff.
Craving 'attention and respect'
Rich people got to decide who 'deserves' funding.
'He had status, not just for the pain tolerance, but for his ability to manufacture fun'.
Fatima believes that the Hussains are trying to rub their wealth in her face.
Abdul sees himself as higher regard than those who walkable around collecting trash.
'She wants a shining public life'.
'She'd started to be treated as a mattering person.
'For all Asha's power in Annawadi, it was inconsistent beyond the slum's boundaries'.
LOVE
Quotes/examples
Asha believed that 'money was more important than love'
'she was tender and playful with her children...her only flaw was the language used haggling'.
Abdul loves his family, so he works hard to support them. - Manju cares deeply for the children of Annawadi.
RESPONSIBILITY
Quotes/examples
People began to feel sorry for Fatima, so they began caring for her.
Guilt about Fatima
Abdul taking responsibility for is actions. Not buying stolen goods.
ROLE OF WOMEN
Arranged marriage.
Under educated
Quotes/examples
Respectable women visited Fatima
Fatima abandons the traditional morals of Indian women.
Prostitution.
Bound to arranged marriages.
Meena had to confom
'When Manju says about Asha looking better than in pink.
'Stream of respectable female visitors'
'Her abiding interest was in extramarital sex'.
Fatima 'took lovers while her husband needs was sorting garbage elsewhere'.
Manju tires to educate the young Annawadian girls with the hope that it will improve their lives.
Asha attempts to arrange a marriage for Manju.
Navarti is the one time a year when girls are allowed to dance and flirt.
Manju has big dreams despite knowing the traditional ways of women.
Meena is beaten up by her family for having opinions.
'The runt leg had smacked down her bride price'.
'Annawadi's first female college graduate'.
DIVISION
Rich vs poor
Men vs women
India vs world
Slums vs middle class vs upper class
Whilst all of the poor have a similar goal, they are not helping each other.
Examples/quotes
Not helping sick people
Lack of unity between the poor.
Ice/dirty water