Behind The Beautiful Forever Analysis

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An assumption expressed all over the world is that poverty stricken areas have an inherent absence of hope and therefore, the inhabitants live purely for survival. Quite a misconception, as in the novel Behind the Beautiful Forever, captures a rather emotional span of three years in the life of the Indian slums. Katherine Boo’s book introduces a humane quality of these people, not that of savage survival. She bestows upon the reader an insiders look at the importance of hope and suffering and constructive forces within a slum. Globalization helps to influence hope by allowing better opportunities to improve life. Hope and suffering are emotions that every human is capable of beholding, and the book accuses the reader of viewing people of low income as insensible.
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Globalization catalyzes the ability to make a living and feed a family in geographically bare areas. Conversely, globalization does not hold all answers because the income from jobs in Mumbai are not largely profitable, but it does offer a way to improve life and boost hope to eventually relocate to affluent geographies. But even with the effects of globalization, poverty remains a struggle and throughout the World. Slum dwellers live in a different situation than a typical American household, and this leads to the belief that their sole existence depends on survival because they are poor and have to eat rats and frogs from the pond. The human quality is stripped from them and people of these places are instantly animalized. Veseth’s “globalization is not americanization” suggests that Americans view other countries as disconnected or underdeveloped if they do not meet Western standards (Veseth 113). Therefore, the assumptions of a culture derived by survival comes from a lack in accepting to see divergent ways of life

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