Balram Betrayer Essay

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Balram the Betrayer Laxmangarh – Although it is already five years ago since the landlords punished them for the deeds of their son, but many of you will still remember the Halwai family. A family of sweetmakers and with the most beautiful water buffalo of Laxmangarh. Now, five years later, we found their son who caused the immense unrest in our village, Balram Halwai, who is now living under the alias of Ashok Sharma. We found him in Bangalore where he is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the city, with his own successful taxi company. Our journalists got possession of several letters which Balram was trying to send to the Chinese prime minister, to whom he told his own “justified” version of the family’s story.
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Then, when he finally became the first servant, by betraying the former first driver, he had to go to Delhi with Mr Ashok, his wife and the Mongoose. He only did this to be able to drive the most beautiful and expansive car the Stork owned, the Honda City. In this enormous city he drove Mr Ashok and his wife around, from their home to the shopping mall and back. This, as you will have guessed, provided Balram with a great deal of money. Did this go to his family? No. He stopped sending money to his lovely grandmother …show more content…

He still does while writing the letters to the Chinese premier. He tries to convince everyone that his master’s wife, Pinky Madam, was driving the car when this happened. Does he really think anyone will believe this?
As you can understand, Balram was treated very well as the first servant of Mr Ashok and his American wife. The question is, what drove him to kill his master, who never did anything wrong to him? The only thing Balram cared about was money, and by cutting his master’s throat Balram got his greatest desire; money. With this money he was able to run off to Bangalore to start his taxi company. Of course this was not the only goal of the money. Money also is the perfect method to bribe the police, and this is what Balram did, twice.
Immediately following the horrible news of the loss of their son, the Stork and his family came back to our little village and terrorized the house of the Halwai family. You might think this is terrible, but wouldn’t you have done the same? All of this happened, because Balram Halwai wanted to break free from his master, and have all the money he could ever wish. The biggest betrayer that our town has ever known, Balram Halwai. Let him know that he won’t be welcome to come back to our village ever again, to honour our fallen friends of the Halwai family and of course the son of our landlord, Mr

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