Sai

In the section of The Inheritance of Loss which I read recently, we are introduced to the main character Sai. Sai is the granddaughter of a retired judge, Justice Jemubhai Patel. In India near the Himalayas Sai lives with her cook and dog. Poverty is a conflict she has to deal with daily and robbery is common in which the area she lives in. Sai and her family are robbed while she is waiting for her tutor to come. This leads to the police coming to do a search of her home. While the police are searching, they uncover the true state which Sai is living, and discover letters of Sai's history.

Sai's mother was a young college student who would often go study outside her college dorm. Sai's father would job by each day, and eventually became aquainted. They eloped with one another and soon Sai was born. When Sai was six years old her father was selected by the Indian Russian colaberative Air Force to be the first Indian man to travel into space. Sai's mother and father went to train in Russia and it is there where they died in a tragic bus accident, two years later after they arrived in Russia. Sai was then a orphan. Her grandfather was paying for her to stay in a covenant, although she was unaware of it. Then, poverty hit the judge and Sai was no longer able to stay in the covanant. She moved in with her grandfather. Sai has a unique intelligence and a great stive for education, which she seems she has adapted from her deceast well educated parents. Although she faces poverty everyday, Sai overcomes her struggles and stays strong with a confident attitude.