Tuesday, April 6, 2010
untouchable
The book Untouchable takes place in India with the main character, Bakha, a boy who desperately wanted to run way from his Indian lifestyle and engulf himself into the British European Tommies) lifestyle. During this time in the novel, Bakha is a low-caste sweeper, meaning that he cleans up dung (crap). one morning Bakha decides to go into the city with the little money he made from cleaning the latrines, and while walking down the streets a higher-caste Hindus start circle him while saying things like, "Why don't you call, you swine, and announce your approach," and, "Now i will have to go and take a bath to purify myself." Even while stepping foot into a chapel he was ridiculed and discriminated against because of his profession...a profession that is necessary in their society. After that horrible morning, he declared himself untouchable.
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