Automatic Upgrade Essay

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Summary Automatic Upgrade is a short story, written by Maggie Robb, is a story about a young, Indian man named Ramesh. Ramesh is a 26 year old man, who chose to work in a mobile phone business instead of going after his career as a doctor, even though he had been studying for five years and his family had paid his fees throughout these five years. Ramesh and Nani, who is his grandmother, were on a plane heading towards Surrey, which is a county in the South East of England, where they would visit Ramesh's sister and her husband (his brother-in-law). After being told that Ramesh had stopped pursuing his career as a doctor, his grandmother started complaining and telling him how wrong it is. She keeps comparing him to his sister, because he is 26 years old and doesn't have a job or a family of his own. After a while Ramesh fell asleep and woke up later and noticed how the lights in the plane had been dimmed and the people around him were mostly asleep. He looked over at his grandmother and guessed straight away that she was dead, but had to make sure. As he found out that his grandmother had died, and it was supposedly his fault, he started panicking but tried to remain as calm as possible. He went and talked with the flight attendants about it and they gave him and his grandmother a place in first class. Characterizing In the story we hear about Ramesh, who is a 26 year old Indian man. He is unemployed and his family has very high expectations of him. He knows what is best for him, but struggles to make his family, mostly his grandmother, understand. As it's written on the first page of this short story, Ramesh claims that he will make much more money in the mobile phone business and he calls it progress. He respects and keeps his family close, but at times it's just too hard for
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