blog #8 extra credit paragraph

I saw Slumdog Millionaire and noticed that it was similar and different to the book Nectar in a Sieve. The character in both Slumdog and Nectar were lower class. They reinforced that the Indian caste system was very difficult to live in because once you were born into a certain class, it was hard to get out of it. In Slumdog Millionaire Salim and his brother were born in the slums and the only way Salim brought himself out of that lifestyle was through winning money from the show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. In Nectar in a Sieve, Rukmani remained as a peasant because of the lack of money and because she was born in that class. Also the movie and the book showed how important spices and color was to them. In the movie almost everyone was wearing very colorful outfits including sarees etc. just like in Nectar in a Sieve. And at all the market scenes in the movie spices were being sold. Rukmani gave her daughter a maroon and red Indian wedding dress. Both the movie and the book showed me better how the slum and peasant lifestyle were like. In both they lived in mud huts, drank dirty water and lived off of little food. They also used the term rupees for money. I think that this would be very hard to live in and a very difficult time filled with many struggles. Being a slum/peasant would not be fun and sounds like a hard life.