Summary of Automatic Upgrade

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Summary of Automatic Upgrade The story “Automatic Upgrade”, written by Maggie Robb. The story is about young Indian man named Ramesh. Ramesh is on an airplane with his grandmother, and they are travelling to Surrey, to stay with Ramesh’s sister and family. While they are on the airplane, Ramesh tells his grandmother that he wants to stop working, as a doctor, and he wants to try the mobile phone business career, because he means that, they making much more money than a doctor do. His grandmother complaining him and telling him how wrong he thinks. They falling to sleep, after the conversation and eating the airhostess’s meal. Once Ramesh wakes up, he straight guess, that his grandmother is dead. The flight attendant moves Ramesh and his grandmother into the First class. While sitting in the first class, Ramesh thinks about his training time as a doctor. The thought of how the farmers and their customers would need a telephone to communicate with each other and how this would be a good opportunity for him in that area. In the end of the story, he looks into his grandmothers’ bag, and finds a letter from him. He wrote an apology 10 years ago, for missing his grandfathers’ funeral, for hope of forgiveness. He was surprised that grandmother still had that letter. Characterization of Ramesh Ramesh sounds to be a responsible man. He is a doctor and his grandmother is very proud of him. However, his passion is somewhere else. He tells his grandmother, that he wants to start in the mobile phone business: “But Nani, I will make much more money in the mobile phone business”. This means passionate. He feels that responsibility for his family, and he specially wants his grandmother to be proud of him and his life. He would probably keep being a doctor just to make her happy. Because, when he was reminded the promise, that he gave to her, for hope of

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