Chapter.8 "the seventh night"

Chapter 8.

page. 250-276


The seventh night

Summary: 

The 8th chapter is the last chapter of the book.
It’s about Balrams change from a hunted criminal into a solid pillar of Bangalorean city.

Balram remembers.

After Balram left Dehli he transferred from train to train,zigzagging his way down to Bangalore.
At one of the train stations he saw a police poster. It was his police poster. They were looking for him.
Balram had to find a way to fit in the city. Once again he overheard peoples conversations.
He heard people talking about American businesses and outsourcing.
He wanted to join the outsourcing movement one way or another.
The employees of these companies work at night and sleep during the day.
Walking home at night is dangerous especially for the female employees.
Balrams idea was a taxi service. He wanted a service to pick the employees up and bring them home safely.
Because there were already some taxi services in the city he counted on the police.
Balram gave one of the police officers some money and he said “ for all the going to do me,
sir.”
Balram rented some cars and got his first contracts.
His idea had grown into a big business. Nowadays Balram calls himself Ashok Sharma.

A couple of nights ago one of Balrams drivers drove a boy over. Balram took the blame.
Balram handed one of the policeofficers some money and the police didn't even report the case.
He also gave some money to the family of the boy and he offered the other son a job as a driver.

Balram thinks that the stork's family probably killed his family after he murdered Mr. Ashok but he tried not to think about them.
Dharam is the only family member he has left. He put him into an english school and feeds him.

In his last words he tells about his future plans. He’s thinking about real estate next and someday he’ll start an English school for poor kids in Bangalore.

This is the final sentence of his story:

“I’ll never say I made a mistake that night in Dehli when I slit my masters throat.
I’ll say it was a worth while to know, just for a day, just for an hour, just for a minute, what it meant no to be a servant.”

Personal Part: 

Something that is worth mentioning in this chapter is Balrams way of achieving everything he ever wanted.

He was brave enough to kill his master and to steal the money. Well now he just needed the a good idea to make a big business.
His idea was good but not a great one. It’s something other people did before he just knew how to do it better than everybody else.
A great idea is worth millions of dollars.

A good example for that is Bill Gates whofounded the internetcompany microsoft and invented the system "windows", the students who invented facebook etc. They all had a great idea which was worth a million of dollars.

Money gets to important. It turns friends into enemys.

Because Balram wanted to make the big businness and alot of money he fogott about his family and he traded their lifes for his carreer.


Links: 

This is an article about Bill Gates and his life
http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?PID=122&RID=1

 This is an article about the inventors of facebook.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/01/technology/01facebook.html

 Bill Gates

Zuckeberg inventor of facebook