“Biscuits! Lee grabbed Lemon Creams and Coconut Bites and turned to the boy. He realized that his bobbing was not, as he had assumed, some form of prayer; he was moving to music he could hear through the cheap headphones in his ears”. These lines go directly to the core of the story, which is about prejudice, modern breakthrough and dishonesty.
In this story we meet a young British guy named Lee, Lee hikes up to the top of a mountain with his guide Punjee, when they arrive; Lee is exhausted and can’t wait to get back. This may symbolize that he dreads what he is about to do. The fact that he calculates how far the nearest biscuits is, tells me that he is used to luxury and urban existence. The boy in the store listen to the song “justified and ancient” by the British band British band “The KLF”, and to me that shows how the modern world has spread all over the globe, that a kid in India can hear a song on a walkman when he can’t even afford to go to school. Lee is a typical white Westerner on “vacation”, he thinks the natives are ignorant and dumb, he thinks for example: “how could he tell these people what a manager consultant was?” In the end of the story, we meet a Indian woman who feels sorry for him, points out all his flaws like: heavy clumsy steps, a woman’s hair and soft and fleshy hands. The reason that she feels sorry for him is that she knows that Punjee and the village president has a deal with the local police commissioner about telling when and who buys his cannabis. The woman thinks that the president is a shrewd man and that under him the village had prospered, but he was a man without honor.
Det er gratis at oprette en konto