Chapter 7 - "The Seventh Night"

Summary of the pages 249 - 276
In the last chapter of the book, Balram Halwai talks about two different situation. First, he narrates the story itself until the very end. After that, he talks about the reason for a work break and some hours in absence.

When Balram and his nephew Dharam are on the third day on traveling, he sees his face on a police poster. Another man, recognizing his face, asks him what´s the sense of the poster because he can´t read. Balram tells him that the man on the post had killed two dangerous terrorists.
He mentions the habits of Bangalore and the people which live there. Balram tells about how he corrupts the police, gets a new job and how his company grows up.
In the end, he talks about a case, in which one driver of his company killed a man on a bicycle. Because he corrupted the police, as you already know, his driver was innocent and the inspection has been closed.
However, Balram, the head of the company, visited the family, condolatories and presented the family with 25.000 rupees. 
In the very end of the bock, he mentions one more time, that killing somebody is an occurence that is profoundly bad. But, and this is the most important, like he says, you can get this chance, even if you have to kill somebody, to leave the darkness and join the light. Anything he did, he actually misses Mr. Ashok, would never say that killing him was a mistake he did.


Personal impressions:
Well, in my opinion, I´m not capable to give any statements about what he said in the very end. Of course, there is no reason for nobody to kill anybody. But, and this is actually the reason why I don´t feel able to say anything in this case, when you were born and grown up in darkness, always fighting for water and food, you certainly would have another view about those things.
However, my finally impression about this book is, that I found it really interesting to take a dip in another world, in pain, emotions and fight you normally ain´t confroted with at all. 

The result is, that I like that book and these emotions you get while reading.

Chapter 7 - "The Sixth Night"

Summary of the pages 191 - 247:
The seventh chapter begins with the diseased servant and Balram, both of them standing ahead of the hotel and holding their masters water, which are jogging.
Next, Balram talks to this servant and arranged a meeting with a gold-haired whore for his master, but actually he´s going to have it by himself. They also talk about methods of cheating his master and you get informed about a list of the best ones. Soon, Balram needs to use these methods of getting further salaries by cheating his lord.
When he negotiates a price in amount of 7000 rupees with her pimp, Balram soon recognizes that he gets screwed. He ordered a girl with light hair but instead of that, he gets one with tinged hair and looses, finally, all of his 7000 rupees.
In the further progress of the chapter, the Mongoose comes to have political and commercial consultancies with Mr. Ashok. 
More and more often, Balram gets tempted to steal Mr. Ashoks bag, which obviously is often in use for handling oodles of money for the election. Additionally, he catches up on escape ways, especially on railways, for the case he´ll decide to escape with the money.
Balram meets a bookseller, who´s going to teach him a bit about peotry and literature, and he´s mentioning one significant sentence which will take an important part of Balrams behaviour. Then, Balram receives a letter from his granny Kusum. She sends his nephew Dharam and threatened him to call on his lord if he wouln´t start to send any money to her. 
Obviously, the way the election runs out gets a kind of desaster for Mr. Ashok. His political opponents screw him.
Back to Balram, which goes to zoo with Dharam to get to know each other better, meanwhile plans his final strike. The next day, if Balram is supposed to drive Mr. Ashok to the Sheraton, suddenly the car stopped and Balram simulates a problem with the wheels. Mr. Ashok, requested to assist with looking for the problem, left the car and gets killed by Balram, which decides in the very last moment to pick Dharam up when he escapes.

Personal impressions:
Well, when I look at the personal development of Balram, it is not to overlook that he got more and more corrupt on a regular base. Sometimes it is a kind of terrifying if you see how people can change if it´s about money. His lord, Mr. Ashok, everytime the most sympathetic and likeable member of his family, but nevertheless he had to die by reason of his money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_India

Chapter 6 - "The Sixth Morning"

Summary of the pages 167 - 189:
Balram starts off with his continuation of telling, that he actually thought he knew Mr. Ashok. When he drove him to the Sheraton Hotel, they both got a kind of horny due to a handsame girl crossing the road, while they stood in front of a red light.
Next, he switches over to the conversation with the diseased lips servant ahead of the hotel. They talked about driver´s prospects in future, till he´s supposed to show up for his master. Balram tells, that he conversed with a book-seller about the ambitious Nexals, after he carried his lord and his foreign companion to a cinema.
After Mr. Ashok and this foreign woman boozed went to bed, Balram eavesdropped a conflict between the both of them. He suspects, that Uma - the woman - is his former lady-love.
In the end of the chapter, Mr. Ashok had a meeting with an politician´s assistent. After they took seat in the Honda of Balram and drank a couple of whiskey, this assistent nearly forced Mr. Ashok to meet a russian girl in the car, which had golden hair.
Later, when Balram wiped the car, he found a strand of her golden hair, which he still has on his desk today.

Chapter 5 - "The Fifth Night"

Summary of the pages 147 - 167:

The fifth chapter starts off with Balram talking of hens squeezed in Rooster Coops in indian marketplaces and  sales booths. He referred this situation to the social system in India, tells that the servants are like string puppets of their lords and the most honestly people on earth. Balram talks about the same effect, the effect of being caught of system, that servants can´t get out of their way and that they harass each other as well as competition.
Soon, Balram gets to know in favour of him, that nobody got notice of the accident Pinky Madam have had and that he hasn´t to go to jail.
Some days later, Pinky Madam suddenly broke up with Mister Ashok, left and returned to America. That´s the reason why Mr. Ashok starts to drink excessively alcohol more and more often. By reason of his support, Balram and his lord got a better personal contact and first of all, it seemed to become the first exactly lord-servant friendship.
In the end, this chapter concludes by Balram waiting for his lord in the Honda city. To calm down, he made some Yoga, whereof other servants started to laugh at, the Rooster Coop doing its work quiet well.

Personal impressions:

I really like the comparison between the hens, chicken and so on living in Rooster Coops, and the humanly social system in india, the relation between servants and their lords. If you keep track of some situations mentioned by balram, you obviously have to admit that this theory is proved true. So I chose the following picture referred to my impression.

 

Chapter 4 - "The Fourth Night"

Summary of the pages 97 - 145:

The fourth chapter deals with the abidance from Balram and his masters in Delhi.

Balram, who obviously has some navigational problems in Delhi at the beginning, whereof Pinky Madam and the Mongose are annoyed, soon gets in contact with other servants, especially with a guy with diseased lips.

This servant offers him the magazine most of servants are reading while waiting for some orders - "MURDER WEEKLY". The kindly servant, who´s named Vitiligo-Lips, provides Balram with some supplies for his master´s gratification while waiting previous to a mall, thereunder golf balls, foreign wine and women.

Two nights later, the servant´s harassment leads Balram to sleep in a segregated room infested of mosquitos. The next day, he´s supposed to drive the Mongoose and Mr. Ashok to the President´s House in the politics quarter. When they drove back, darkness already had been taking over the country and both of them obviously seemed to be pissed off about the political system in India.

After all, the Mongoose lost a rupee, got skeptical of Balram and forced him to search until he finally gave him one of his own. Then, unexpectedly, the Mongoose left Delhi by train and just Pinky Madam and Mr. Ashok still remained.

Balram tells, that in the ensuing period, he often hung out with the kind servant, started to brush regularly his teeth and always got a growing dick when caught sight of Pinky Madam in short skirts. More and more often, his master and his wife got laugh at their servant´s pronunciation.

The last part of the chapter took place in the Honda City after Balram waited, like he was supposed to, ahead of a building for Mr. Ashok and Pinky Madam. It was two 2 a.m. in morning, when they both joined the car. Pinky Madam, drunken and nonsensically, took over the car and kicked Balram out of. When she drove along to pick him for the way home, she suddenly crashed a child till death. Balram drove back the way to the hotel after Pinky Madam apathetically and shocked took seat in the backseat.

In the end, the fourth chapter drew to an end with an audience between the Mongoose, a judge and Balram, in which he is supposed to sign a document indicating the guilt of Balram of killed a little child, without any relation neither to Mr. Ashok nor to Pinky Madam.

Personal impressions:

I think it had  to be a big shock for Balram when stood the whole night in a cold car, waiting for his lord to carry him back the way to the hotel – and in the end, he gets a complete certificate in which Balram officially admits that he was the one driving and killing a child in abstinence by reason of drinking alcohol. Pinky Madam, who actually did it, especially is mentioned not to be in any relation to this case.

Even if I mostly fill the part of my personal impressions with critical aspects, anyway I get fascinated of them. In this case, I am astonished about the ethics of his lord, which actually acts without any kind of it.

http://eh.net/Clio/Publications/indentured.shtml


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