“Automatic Upgrade” from 2011 is a short story by the author Maggie Robb. In “Automatic Upgrade” we are introduced to Ramesh, a 26-year-old Indian boy, who is travelling by plane with his old grandmother to Surrey. Aboard the plane, Ramesh announces that he intends to quit his career in medicine as a doctor and wants to pursue the many opportunities within the profession of the mobile phone business. The grandmother doesn’t take the news very well and she expresses her disappointment extremely openly. Later, after dozing off, Ramesh wakes up to find his grandmother completely lifeless in her seat. The aircrew shows infallible professionalism and handle the situation smoothly and without a mess. Ramesh and his grandmother are automatically upgraded to first class, since that is the common procedure in a situation like this.
Ramesh is the main character and the narrator in the short story. That Ramesh is the narrator also means, that he is the one telling us the story and therefore deciding what information is given to us, for he is the one whose thoughts we hear and point of view we see. We only know what the grandmother, and everybody else is saying/doing, when he allows it and tells us.
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