Q&A Slumdog millionaire blog #8 Murder on the western express

     In the chapter Murder on the Western Express, Ram tells his story about his express train ride to Mumbai so that he could meet Salim there. Ram boards the Paschim Express, but first he hired a porter to carry his brown suitcase which contained a few clothes, some old toys, a bunch of Australian Geographic Magazines and electronic game for Salim. Ram is a smart guy because he did not put any money into the suitcase because he heard stories that there are robbers on trains that drug you into falling asleep, then taking all your valuable items and money. Ram pays the porter twenty-two rupees for his service and leaves off. Then, he gets into the train and notices that the cabin he's in contains six berths. Four of the berths are for the family which are for the Father, Mother, Son and daughter. I find it funny because of how easily Ram can get distracted, especially by the daughter who got his attention like a magnet. He couldn't stop looking at her beauty, but suddenly a baby starts crying and is breast feeded by it's mother. I also find it amusing that Ram tries to peek at the mother's breasts while breast feeding the baby, but the Father of the other family noticed that he was, so he stopped. Somehow, Ram manages to get a digital watch made from Japan which costs two hundred rupees. Eventually, the son named Akshay introduces himself and his sister named Meenakshi who lived in Delhi and are also heading to Mumbai to attend their uncle's wedding. After Akshay and Ram talk about games and other things, Ram tells him that he has fifty-thousand rupees in his underwear (where he keeps all his money) but Akshay refuses to believe him until he is shown the money and power that Ram has. Ram relates his fifty thousand rupees to feeling like he has five million because of how much power and mind blowing it can be when shown to other people. Unfortunetely, the stories about robbery in the express that he was told about was true because a dacoity informs everyones attention and tells them to get off their berths. The baby cries again and the dacoity (theif) tells the mother to breast feed the baby, and as soon as she pulls up her blouse, he grabs her breasts. Then he makes a threat to everyone saying that if they don't hand in all their valuables into the brown bag, he'll kill all the passengers on the train. Everyone gives up their valuables but Meenakshi is harassed/violated by the dacoity in which he rips off her shirt, leaving her to be exposed with only her bra on. When the dacoity is about to leave, Akshay tells the dacoity that Ram has fifty thousand rupees in his underwear and makes him hand it over. When he handed the money over, the baby jumps from the mother's lap and lunges at the dacoity's face and right before he his about to pull the trigger on the baby's chest, Ram shoots the dacoity and is left on the floor dead. This part really put me in confusion because I don't understand how a baby can just jump out of a mother's lap and lunge at his face. When the police were coming to investigate the crime scene, Ram decides to jump out and ride random trains to different locations because he thought that if he went to Mumbai, Akshay would tell the police all about him and Salim would get arrested. Smita then presses play on the remote and turns the TV back on for the two hundred thousand rupees, which the seventh question was "Who invted the revolver? Was it a) Samuel Colt, b) Bruce Browning, c) Dan Wesson or d) James revolver and Ram answered A) Samuel Colt, winning two hundred thousand rupees.