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.
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