I have started reading Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup. It is about a poor boy in the slums of India. He lives in a neighborhood where”arrests are as common as pickpockets on the local train” (Swarup 2).  The boy gets arrested after he wins a game show. The reason why they arrested him is because they think he cheated because he has never been to school or read a paper ever. This reminds me of how people think poor people are stupid and cannot do anything smart. This also reminds me of how badly poor people are treated in society like for example, if a poor homeless man goes into a restaurant they will kick him out just because he is homeless. People in society sometimes think of poor people as beneath them.

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