Q&A (pgs238-318 end)

Summary
I have reached the end of the story is Ram going to have a happy ending or a sad ending? Ram is starving and wants to find food, he ended up getting free leftover food from Mcdonalds. He walked to Arga and saw the Taj Mahal, since it was Friday he got to see it for free. Taking advantage of the the foreigners thinking he was a tour guide person he earned a lot of money. Do not worry after being a tour guide for awhile he learned the correct history. Ram moved into a outhouse, by the way he changed his name to Raju Sharma since he was in a different place. Meeting Lajwanti the owner of the outhouse and Shanker a person she tooked care because he had a speech defect. Lajwanti wants her sister to get marry, so low on money she steals a necklace and gets caught and sent to jail. Some of Ram's friends brought him to a prostitute area, where he meets a girl named Nita and they are both 17. They end up making love after he asked questions about her life. Ram begins to fall in love with her and they start going out. Ram wants her to stop being a prostitute so he can marry her, but he must pay her brother 4 lakh rupees and that's money Ram can not even earn until years. Nita gets abused really badly where she needs surgery, Ram joins the quiz show so he can win the money to be able to be with her. He tells his lawyer he has not heard from her in 4 months. Shanker ends up dying really hurting Ram where he cries about it every time he talks about it. The 11th question asked about which Shakespeare play included Costard as a character. Ram used phone a friend, Mr. Chatterjee a man Ram helped when his son was hostipalized, he did not know the answer but told Ram to pick "Love's Labour's Lost" Ram picked it and it was correct he now has 100 million rupees. It has came to the 13th question the final one for 1 billion rupees. The host Prem Kumar is confident Ram would not get this question right. Ram knew all about the Taj Mahal and when he said the correct answer, the show made an excuse saying that was not question he meant to ask. When it was break Ram and Kumar went to the bathroom, Ram hold a gun up to Kumar saying that he was the one who abuse Nita and Neelima because he noticed that exact same marks he put on Neelima on Nita. Kumar convinced Ram not to kill him so they continued with the show.The last question was Beethoven's Paino Sonata is played in which key, Ram used life boat 50-50 to elimate two wrong answers, he used his lucky coin guessed A and won! After he found out his lawyer was really Gudiya from the chawl. Six months went by and Ram's lawyer helped him win the case, he ended up not getting the full 1 billion rupees because of a "game show tax" the show was canceled. Lajwanti was released from jail, Salim got a role as a 17 year old college hero and it was Ram who helped him. Ram is married to the love of his life Nita and Prem Kumar committed suicide, and Ram's lucky coin was actually a double sided heads and he ended up throwing it way because he did not need it anymore. It was a happy ending after all for Ram Mohammad Thomas.

Quotation
This is the very last page of the story where Ram and Smita are talking about the coin, "I take the coin from her and toss it high into the air. It goes up, up, and up glints briefly against the turquoise sky, and then drops swiftly into the ocean and sinks into its cavernous depths" (Swarup 318).

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Ram has brought this "lucky coin" everywhere with him it was like in every chapter it does not matter if it was in the beginning, middle, or end of the chapter he used it. Now finding out that it was heads on both sides, I think back thats why it always landed on heads and is the reasons he always betted on heads. The word choice Swarup used in this part blew me away because I could actually picture the golden coin shiny as it reaches it highest to touch the sky. It is at the moment where I thought Ram is going to grab it as it falls because thats his coin. In shocked that he let the coin drop into the ocean this shows that Ram is ready to move on, that he wants to let go of his past. Since the coin fell so deep into the oceans it foreshadows that Ram's problems have been properly put away, because he does not have to worry if they will show up again while the coin is deep in the ocean and will slowly move further and further away from India. Its is like if Ram would of kept the coin then I would of known that Ram believes he still needs luck in order to get by life in a happy manner. Noticing his life was going good after the the quiz show was over, there was no need to rely on a gold coin for luck but as Ram said, "I won't need it anymore. Because luck comes from within" (Swarup 318). Ram has always use his luck from within himself because his coin was double heads, so he used his instinct for when he came into hard situations. I am glad Ram's story ended well where he now feels happy.