Untouchables- pg. 85

Page 85 in Untouchables shows the struggle Bakha has to go through to get food for his family. On this page the level of callousness he has to put up from the higher caste is shown. The disgust the people above Bakha have for him turns into the disgust he grows to have against his lifestyle. In a scene from this page regardless of how hungry Bakha was he still refused to eat a piece of wet bread he got from the Bramines. The piece of wet bread was a reminder of what Bakha had to go through in order to get it. At that moment the wet bread was a symbol of his human status. It was a cruel representation of the luxury he would never attain. No matter how much work he went through to get the food or how hungry he was he was still prideful and refused to be subjected to eating the wet bread. This moment was Bakha's breaking point. After going through a day being reminded that he was an untouchable and seen as nobody he was fed up. He was also embarrassed to tell his family because he knew they wouldn't understand the reason for losing his appetite. No one but Bakha knew at that moment what it would mean for him to eat the wet bread. To him it meant accepting the abuse from others that were higher than him. Although he couldn't do much about the abuse outside of his home this was his way of putting his foot down and pretty much saying enough is enough.