Slumdog Millionaire! This movie was based off of a novel that was written by Vikas Swarup. That novel was Q & A. We are reading this novel in my World Humanities class. We thought it would be a good book to read while we were still on the whole world religion conversations that we have been having in class. We thought of this book because it does give a lot of references to many different religions and a few different cultures from a different country in the world than our own, India! The novel is based in India with a little boy named Ram Mohammed Thomas. Though, in the movie, the boy’s name is Jamal. In the novel he was named that name by a priest since the priest didn’t know the boy’s religion he gave him three different names that all pertain to three different religions just in case. This boy also had a very best friend in the novel named Salim. Although Salim was Jamal’s brother in the hit film, Slumdog Millionaire. The reason for being called Q & A or Slumdog Millionaire is because the little orphan boy Ram or the slum runner boy Jamal both are selected to be on the hit show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, or in the books case Who Wants To Win A Billion. I absolutely enjoyed watching the movie. I had seen the movie  many times before we began reading this novel so I sort of have a good base of what the novel was going to be about  but then again the novel is very different from the film! They are very different but they both have the same idea of having a boy from the slums go in, win the jackpot and be tortured and questioned on how he managed to answer all the questions right without having any education or anything of that sort.