Kenny's Use Of A Metaphor For The Poor

In chapter 19, Kenny uses a metaphor to express how the poor and suffering people in India never ask for help, and thus, never receive any aid to better their harsh lives. After Kenny employs Selvam, Rukmani’s youngest son, at his hospital that will be built, Rukmani goes to Kenny to thank him and ask him how he got the money to build the hospital. When he responds that he has thousands in money, Rukmani is surprised because Kenny had always lived like the poor. Kenny explains by saying, “Part of it came from my country and my people, part of it from yours” (Markandaya 111). Rukmani questions Kenny, and asks “why people who have not seen us and who know us not should do this for us” (Markandaya 111). Kenny explains that the people have the