Slumdog Millionarie- Entry 1

Comments:

1. Ram is being accused of cheating on a game show.
2. Smita is trying to figure out how he knew all the answers by replaying the game over again on a DVD.
3. As the Game Show is told it gives a background of Ram's life story.
4. Ram was an orphan boy who soon lost his orphan parent, Father Thomas.
   
5. Ram witness many attempts where people broke sins, and had same sex interactions.

Questions:

1. Does the sudden breaks between the scenes of the game show that goes into Ram's past, explain the reason why he knows the answers?
2. How does Ram know all the answers?
3. The show host is cheating for Ram, asking only the questions he knows the answers to?
4. Why would they send him to a juvenile home, if he is not a juvenile, he just does not have parents, shouldn't he be an orphan again?

Words:

1. trite(pg2)- lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition
2. convulse(pg12)- to shake violently
3. scurrilous(pg28)- grossly or obscenely abusive
4. poignantly(pg29)- keen or strong in mental appeal
   

Literary Terms:

1. "Salim's anger is white hot"(pg 28)- Metaphor
2. "..like a heavyset man wearing a leather jacket and tight black trousers, with another similar dressed man ridding pillion"(pg 45)- Imagery

Summary:

• Ram Muhammad Thomas is struggling in trying to prove that he knew the answers to the game show while others accuse him of cheating, so he plays videos and explains his life story.