Page 147-166: "The Fifth Night"

Summary:
Balram starts telling in this chapter with writing about a special Indian invention: it's neither the Internet nor spaceships, it's the Rooster Coop. The Rooster Coop is a cage, where roosters get caught for being sold at the market. The birds are close to each other and in a miserable situation, but they do not try to get out.
This is also how the Indian system works: a handful of men is reigning the other people. Like the roosters, no one is trying to get out. The reason is, that only a man who is prepared to see his family destroyed (tortured) can break out of the coop.
"It would, in fact, take a White Tiger. You are listening to the story of a social entrepreneur, sir."
Balram lies in his bed worrying about his future when he is called upstairs. The Stork is now with his two sons in the room and Balram has to massage his feet. While doing this, they tell him, that there was no crime reported and he has not to sign the statement.
The next three days, he has to massage the Storks feet until he gets ill and he has to get him to a famous private hospital. The day after he drives the Mongoose and the Stork to the railway station and after that, he's going into a Hanuman (-> links) temple to say prayer of thanks.

At the early morning of the next day Pinky Madam wakes him up. She wants him to drive he to the airport and because he is not allowed to contradict he drives her. This is how Mr Ashok's marriage comes to an end/ she leaves him. Short before leaving she gives Balram an brown envelope filled with 4700 rupees.
Mr Ashok is at first very angry with him because he thinks Balram's guilty for her leaving, but at last he goes depressive and drinks a lot for a few days. In this time, Balram gets close to Mr Ashok and for a short time, theres a very good master to servant realtionship, Balram makes him feel better. After a week passes like this, Mukesh comes to visit his brother and the situation gets normal again.
Balram gets a letter from his grandmother Kusum: she does'nt order him to marry, but she tries to convince him again and asks for some money. The next day he drives Mukesh back to the railway station. Coming home again, he sees Mr Ashok massaging his own feet and tries to do this on his own, but Mr Ashok shouts "No!" and wants him to leave.
Waiting in front of the mall once more, he's doing some yoga as seen on tv. Opening his eyes, he sees how other drivers stand around the car and make fun of him.
"The rooster coop was doing his work. Servants have to keep other servants from being innovators, experimenters, or entrepreneurs."


My opinion:
A thing that i find really interesting in this part is the rooster coop. It is the result of the caste system in India, altough it is forbidden. But theres a difference: in the caste system, the priests was on top. That means that religion was very important. But nower days, the religion was replaced by money. On top of the system are now the rich people: politicians, entrepreneurs and police inspectors for example. The system was unalterable before. But since it was forbidden, theres always blood and fights because of people want to get to the top or stay on the top.
This is something interesting to think about: Does freedom make people fighting each other?


Links:
- http://hinduism.about.com/od/lordhanuman/a/hanuman.htm