Slumdog Millionaire: Lifestyles of the Broke and Unknown

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is a film that features a character, Jamil Malik, who lives in Dubai and is considered an ignorant young boy. Jamil Malik had never went to school or college and would not have known any of the answers for the game show, “Who wants to be a Millionaire” but was given the prejudge of being on the show because he grew up in the slums of India. Jamil’s life experiences allowed him an

Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire follows two brothers from the Juhu slum in Mumbai as they face the trials and tributes of growing up in poverty. Although Salim, the elder brother, is given the same childhood experiences and trauma as his younger brother Jamal, his drive and hunger for power lead him to a life of crime, corruption and misconduct. These actions later have a detrimental effect on his relationship with Jamal, which in turn, becomes his demise. Boyle uses a range of effective film techniques to develop Salim’s growth as a character which helps to communicate the idea that ambition can enhance an individual or be the reason for their downfall. Throughout the film, Boyle uses the varying stages of Salim’s life through

In the novel, many mothers including Somer extensively sacrifice themselves for the well-being of their children. Somer was an ambitious and dynamic medical professional, however, after taking up motherhood, she transforms into a person whose life revolves around the life of her child. This is evident from the narrator's description of why Kris is frustrated with Somer, " ... [he misses] the woman he fell in love with--the intellectual partner, the equal companion. He misses talking to Somer about medicine ... these days she'd rather discuss the mundane details of Asha's school work" (Gowda 117). This excerpt proves the fact that Somer has put aside her aspirations, whereas Kris has continued to pursue his ambitions without giving them up after entering parenthood. Similarly, one of Asha's interviewees, a woman living in the poverty stricken, Dharavi slum in India, sacrifices herself by working as a prostitute for the well-being of her family; whereas her husband lives carelessly as a jobless drunkard. She is not happy about her work. Her pay is minimal, a mere 100 rupees ($2.00) per night, but she is compelled to do this work as it enables her to put food on the table for her children. The woman also says that, if her husband gets a job, she will not have to work as a prostitute anymore. In other words, her irresponsible husband can liberate her from the forced sacrifice, but he is not.

Throughout both in-class discussions, and David Shipler’s “The Working Poor: Invisible in America” we learned being poor in America is anything but easy. Even with all of our government assistance programs such as Medicaid and Welfare, many family generation after generation seem to fall below the poverty line and create a life of struggle and long way out for their families. When Shipler is explaining different families and their lac of self control in saving the little money they do earn, it makes you question if the have the know how to get out of poverty, or even in some cases even want to due to their different spending habits than successful people, falling into credit traps, and buying the un-necessary.

Although it is culturally unacceptable for a girl to disobey a man, especially her own father, Shahrazad understands that her desire to save the town’s citizens, particularly the girls, is much stronger than obeying her father and adhering to the cultural norms. Holding strong even after her father, the King’s vizier, tells her “The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife” which implies that women are always lesser to men and should even be physically harmed in order to submit to them, Shahrazad establishes that “such tales don’t deter [her]” (417). Shahrazad even goes as far as to trick her own father into allowing her to enact her plan by mentioning “I shall go to him by myself behind your back and tell him that you have refused to give me to one like him and that you have begrudged your master one like me”

This method of trafficking is displayed in the story of Loreta, a young and pure-hearted girl from Lithuania who was 15 years old at the time her prostitution commenced. When she graduated from foster care, Loreta did not anticipate the dark and twisting route her life would soon advance through.

The devastating story of the thirteen year-old girl, Lakshmi, endures all kinds of hardship when she was sold into sex trafficking in hopes to earn her family more money. Patricia McCormick shows her readers the horrors of the reality of sex trafficking, through the eyes of Lakshmi, a girl in her book in Sold. All of the victims make life-changing decisions hoping to help their families have a better life. Every one of them go through many individual circumstances that make each of them a different person to help them with their situation. In Sold, Patricia McCormick uses the sex slaves experiences to show how people become stronger as they overcome the challenges in their lives.

Tim Howard grew up in New Jersey sharing an apartment with his mother and his brother. It was small and in a poor dangerous area. Tim had to overcome many challenges when he was growing up. Being poor was the hardest challenge Tim had to deal with. Not only did Tim have to struggle with poverty, when Tim was in Elementary School he was diagnosed with OCD and Tourettes Syndrome. As Tim grew up his Tourettes prevented him from being himself and concentrating in school, but on the soccer field Tim felt relaxed and his OCD and tourette's didn't prevented Tim at all. By the time Tim was playing in the EPL he was trying to get people to notice tourettes and tell people that trying to hid it will only make it worse, Tim knew because he hid his

Suki Kim is an author for The Interpreter who was born in South Korea and moved to the United States due to her dad being confronted with bankruptcy. According to the essay titled “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits,” Kim let her readers know about how she figured out how to adjust to another method for living after her dad lost everything. Kim discloses how she started to acknowledge who she had gotten to be, and how her point of view changed after this move had occurred. Subsequent to moving to Queens, New York, she experienced issues adjusting to the American society since she was from Korea. She did not speak English; along these lines, she watched "Three's Company" in endeavor to learn English.

The mother was akin to a doll; she was beautiful, fragile, and unargumentative. Her submissive personality type made her a commodity; she was valued not for achievements or usefulness, but for her perfect behavior and classic beauty. The way she dressed and ate made her the last of the true aristocrats, or as Naoji describes, the “genuine article” (4)  and she had high sign-exchange value in herself.  But after the death of her husband, Kazuko’s father, it is clear that she had little practical skill, a fact even Kazuko admits. “Mother understands less of money matters than a child... “ (17). “Naoji and I had taken advantage of her to grow up without concerning ourselves about anything. Now Mother no longer had any money” (20). This shows that the

The life story of the protagonist Jamal Malik in Slumdog Millionaire is built through the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” and a series of his flashbacks revealing how his life experiences gave him the right answers to every quiz question in the show. It displays the way he formed his destiny. On the day when running away from the Hindu rioters who brutally killed his mother just because of the religious difference, Jamal accidentally met Latika. Driven by the

In Danny Boyle’s film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, a vast range of effective film techniques are used to communicate not only transitions and character traits/personalities, but also the ideas of how power can corrupt individuals, and how ideas can be communicated, such as how ambition can enhance an individual, or be the reason for their downfall, and how our past informs our future; our outcome in life is determined by where we’ve come from. They are able to visualise this with the three main characters. The protagonist Jamal, the antagonist Salim and Latika.

In the movie Slumdog Millionaire, Salim and Jamal made many choices that affected them very differently even though they were both presented the same obstacles. In fact, the decisions that Jamal has made throughout his life helped him to acquire all the answers to the questions presented to him on the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”. The choices that they made were sculpted by their poverty and surroundings. Larry Ervin, the author of Slumdog Millionaire's Artful Dodge - Film Review, states “From the same mother, nurtured by most of the same harrowing experiences, Jamal and Salim follow different paths. The older brother is seduced down the path of money and power, employing his stolen gun in service of a local gangster,

Slumdog Millionaire is a multi-Oscar winning film directed by Danny Boyle that was based on the novel, Q & A written by Vikas Swarup. The novel is a love story about a man trying to get back the love of his life from a

India is a country in central Asia with a population of over 1.22 billion people making it the second most populous country in the world. Its high population is one of the factors that results in India having such a high poverty rate. In India today over 37% of the population live below the poverty line. The reality of such a statistic means that these people live in conditions unimaginable to people of the western world. In the film Slumdog Millionaire by director Danny Boyle deeper ideas associated with this poverty are developed including destiny, loyalty and how poverty frees us. These deeper ideas are developed through visual techniques