Slumdog Millionaire Synthesis

The poem "The Road Not Taken", written by Robert Frost, directly relates to the novel Slumdog Millionaire's main character Ram. Throughout the novel, Ram is forced to make tough choices in order to get ahead in life and be rid of the life of a slumdog. Each path he chooses leads him to overcome other obstacles each one as, or more, serious than the other. As he travels throughout his tragic life, each path he chooses leads to big opportunities but also, leaves what potentially could be his escape from poverty behind. Robert Frost wrote, "Then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear; though as for that the passing there had worn them really about the same" This shows how when people go through their lives they are forced to make educated decisions about what path they take that will benefit them in the long run. Although people end up making the wrong decisions, it is only the outcome of that decision that they can learn from which helps them make better decisions in the future which is what life is all about. The poem says "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." This quote is exactly how Ram lives out his life. Sometimes the difference, as referred by the poem, is a negative experience and sometimes it isn't but both will make him a stronger person as it will all the rest of us.