Boo 100 - 125 Response

As section two continues, we learn of Fatima’s fate, dying in her attempt to scorn the Husain household, and as such their predicament becomes even direr. It makes a good Segway into the pages that go into how Abdul, his father, and his sister are dealt with and reprimanded by the authorities and the judicial government of Mumbai, and just how quickly situations can be pinned on someone when it wasn’t their fault, but also just how easily manipulated city workers, police officers, and official documents can be swayed or fixed. Such examples were seen when Abdul’s mother receives help from the one officer, Thokale, who essentially said he would blackmail her if she didn’t pay off the debts she owed, now that she has cleared things with him, as well as how she wishes she had simply paid Asha to clear everything up before it got out of hand, or in the way she was able to pay to get a fake birth certificate of Abdul in order to make him legally 16. It’s also funny in a sad way to see how all this effort and strain his mother goes through to put Abdul in juvenile prison rather than the adult’s seems fairly inconsequential, considering how harsh the conditions Boo describes the conditions at the juvenile prison as being, and how bad you must feel for the father at the prison Abdul managed to be kept from going to. The storytelling of the descriptions of the character’s actions effectively adds to the mood and feelings of everything without even addressing it directly.