Behind Beautiful Forevers By Katherine Boo

The city of Mumbai has seen much growth in the past years. A string of elegant hotels have been set up for travelers and high-class business men. An ever growing, top of the line airport has been built for those coming in and out of the country. From the outside, Mumbai seems to have taken a liking to being internationally integrated with the rest of world, otherwise known as globalization. This is not the case, however; as seen in Katherine Boo’s novel Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. This novel is set in a slum right next to the Mumbai International Airport called

Many kids in south sudan struggle daily in a hard labor intense day. This book has very emotional content that makes us think that we all have a much better life then a lot of the world, so we should never take things for granted. The book has young kids living in constant struggle to find a meal and shelter. We must not take daily things for granted like school, a pencil, and even water. So, never take simple things for granted because you never know what other kids are struggling

Throughout the world many people lose family members and loved ones in tragedy and war. This relates to the novel A Long Walk To Water by Linda sue park. In this novel parks show'ed us the struggles of a young boy named salva whose family was lost and had to make a 1,000 mile trek to an Ethiopian refugee camp. While at the same time parks shares a fictional story about a young girl named nya.Parks did this to show us the struggles of women. Throughout the course of the novel Parks shows us how salva survives by being determined ,brave ,and

In Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo is more successful than Doris Pilkington, author of Rabbit Proof Fence,in conveying the challenges faced by the main character. Boo uses mood to develop the idea of the main character’s harsh life. She also uses word choice to show the difficulties in Abdul’s life. By doing this the reader deeply understands how difficult Abdul’s life is in Behind the Beautiful Forevers, better than the reader could understand the difficulties of the Aboriginals in Rabbit Proof Fence.

A person's life may seem challenging and overwhelming so we create heroes who rise up to fight for us, artist and writers use their childhood imagination and inspire themselves give hope to children seeking to be rescued.

In the book “Year of no Rain” Alice Mead tries to show life is not fair to others and some people have it way harder than we do. In the book it will tell you about 3 boys traveling the south sudan. Fighting obstacles that some of us may never have living throughout in the US. The boys lose their sister and mom and have to find them. This is a good lesson because Alice is letting people know we have it easy compared to some people and life isn’t being fair.

Youths must deal with complications in their lives, whether it is as simple as college applications or as devastating as starvation, oppression, and poverty. In the writings “Jahar’s World” by Janet Reitman, and “I am Malala” by Malala Yousafazai with Christina Lamb, Jahar and Malala are two youths from countries in turmoil that face terrible situations during their teenage years. Though, both protagonists encounter difficult problems in their lives, they cope with them in drastically different ways.

Focusing on the efforts of Vanda Juknaite as the children’s only prospect for an honest future, this memoir demonstrates a necessity for a constant availability of role models. From the common expression “it takes a village to raise a child,” the

I decided to demonstrate this story through a podcast in order to connect with young children who find themselves facing situations that they have no control over and to teach them that their best effort is all that is required of them. I

Katherine Barlow changes dramatically from the beginning of the story to the end of the story. In the beginning she is a beautiful and nice schoolteacher that makes the best spiced peaches. All of the her students loved her. The author says, “She was a wonderful teacher, full of knowledge and full of life. The children loved her.” (Sachar, 102) Sam and Katherine Barlow were friends and one day Sam fixed a leak in the roof of the schoolhouse. Soon, Katherine Barlow fell in love with Sam and she ran out of things to ask him to fix. Then Katherine Barlow went to the place where Sam sold onions and told him that her heart was breaking. Then Sam kissed her and Hattie Parker saw them and spread the word. The author says, “ He took hold of both

On March 17, 1947, a baby girl was born to a low-income family. She grew up with little to none privileges. As a child she had to work to help her family to make ends meet. From selling candies to tourist in a nearby town, to making rosarios with her father. Her whole childhood was based around working, which kept her from learning how to read or write. At the age of eighteen she married a young twenty-four-year-old man who worked at the old recycling market where her father would get the metal for the rocarios. Throughout their married years the couple had thirteen children ten girls and two boys. Although the young woman had finally married and had started a family both her and her husband struggled to provide for their children, yet managed to give them all that they can. At

*The following story was written to teach the importance of educating children about working hard and having pride the job they do, no matter what others may think. Sometimes in life people don't always get high status jobs. Some may work as garbage men, scavengers, or in low status jobs. Even though people might have jobs with a low status, they should still be proud of doing hard work. It is important to teach children that it doesn't matter what job have when you grow up. What matters is you feel satisfied with yourself and the job you do to support your family.*

There once was a girl named Emily, who was 6 years old. She lived on a small farm, in a small town, with not many people. She had 9 older siblings and 2 younger siblings. Emily and her family were poor but, she didn’t know that because, she always got what she needed. Her mom taught her how to sew her clothes. Her dad taught her how to run the farm. Emily went to school, but only had one friend named Anna. She was always bullied.

"Honey, I'm done packing the stuff!" My mom called from the car. She left the door swinging wide open, so it was easy for me to hear her. I threw in my clothes and just about everything I owned into my three suitcases. "What am I forgetting? I know there's something I'm missing." I muttered to myself. Crap. All my toiletries. All of them. I raced to the bathroom and grabbed the bag barely noticing it. "Coming!" I shouted, practically jumping down three, four steps at a time. "Oh, sweetie. You look gorgeous." My mom cooed. I looked down at my yellow, short, summer dress with pink, red, and, orange flowers on it. I gave her a smile.

Guggenheim’s film follows five children ranging from first to eighth grade. Each child is trying to insure a better future for themselves because they are all struggling. We learn