A Passage to India takes place in Chandrapore, India. It's during the end of two centuries of British colonization, and cultural tensions between the Indians and local British are high. The British think of the Indians as inferior, and the Indians see the British as ignorant and oppressive. Needless to say there is nearly no socializing between the two groups.
The story begins when two British women travel to India. They come over for a few reasons, and along the way decide that they must see the "Real India". During a night out one of the women meets a local Indian man who is surprised by her kindness to him. The two quickly develop a friendship over tea with a mutual friend and the other British women. A series of events leads to the destruction of the friendship betwe
en all of them and things descend back into the way it used to be, the two groups separated, not wanting anything to do with each other. Years down the road the local Indian runs into one of the British he befriended, and the two realize it wasn't their differences that pulled them apart, but that all the people and everything around them told them they shouldn't be friends. And that was what was really wrong.
A Passage to India is a very simple story that conveys a much larger message about cultural understanding and acceptance.
I think that Forester's original purpose of this story is to show us all how much we can be held back, and what experiences or friendships we miss out on, when we judge someone based on what other people tell us about them. When we refuse to accept someone becaus
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