How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia By Moshin Hamid

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In order to make a book that the reader will be able to follow and make it compelling to them as well, one needs to include a variety of different elements. The third born, an excerpt from the novel How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia written by Moshin Hamid follows a young boy and his family from life in an improvised village to life in the “glamorous” city, done effortlessly through including the theme; the order of birth. In addition, to portray the hardship of this story and set the wearisome tone experienced throughout the excerpt, Hamid uses conflict. Which is portrayed through visions of money, life and death, health and externally and internally. From the very first paragraph money becomes an important topic when the main character …show more content…

Order of birth makes another appearance on (hamid 8) when the third borns older sister looks to him in comfort on the way to the city. "It does not occur to you, young as you are, hat is is she who needs reassurance, that she seeks you not to comfort you but, rather, for the comfort that you, her only recently recovered little brother, have in this lonely of fragile vulnerability the capacity to offer her." Order of birth than takes a different twist instead of referring to the main character instead Hamid refers to the main characters teacher not having the job he wanted as a meter reader but instead had to become a teacher because he that position when to his eldest brother. Which is also a conflict of not being the eldest. On page 12 The main character says that "third means you are not heading back to the village." As in a previous paragraph we learn his sister is due to her betroval. "Third means you are not working as a painters assistant. Third also means you are not, like your parents ' fourth child, a tiny skeleton in a small grave at the base of a tree." Wisely the main character comes to the conclusion that the order of birth "reveals who is responsible for

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