Slumdog Millionaire By: Vikas Swarup

Slumdog Millionaire by: Vikas Swarup

Slumdog Millionaire is about Ram Mohammed a boy who grew up in poverty in the slums of india and he became an orphan at birth. It tells his story of him growing up and all the hardships he had to deal with. But once he finally grew up he had a bit of luck and got to participate in ‘Who wants to win a billion?’( the indian version of who wants to be a millionaire). He ends up winning the billion rupees but no one believed him because he grew up in the slums.

I chose this song because its about poverty and racism and thats what this movie is about. The main character grew up without a family and that is how some people are brought into poverty. People in poverty have “too much work and too little to eat”, they work all day but don’t even get enough to fill their stomachs. In the Slumdog Millionaire Ram worked his whole life to get to where he was and he is being accused of cheating. That is why i picked this song.  

 





Poverty Hill By:Kingston Trio

They come in their summery dress and jackets so fine
Rich folks who measure success with a big dollar sign
They gaze with delight at the rocks and the scraggly pine
They come in the spring and they stay til the fall
On Paradise Mountain, away from it all

Stubble and stone make a hard row to hoe
What little will grow the drought will kill
The summer folks call it Paradise Mountain
We call it Poverty Hill

They say we have beautiful faces as grainy as wood
Yeah, they'd like to live here, of all places,
if only they could
Well we don't get these wood grainy faces from living too good

Its the rocks and the dust and the sun and the heat
Its too much work and too little to eat
They pack and they say what a pity that they have to go
They say that Old Smoky's so pretty all covered with snow
But how we get thru the winter they never will know

No lard for the pantry, no grist for the mill
And winter's are hard over Poverty Hill