![]() The other children laugh as he sprays water on his genitals and threatens to get back at Latika. Standing over him while he sleeps, she curshes some of the pepper on his penis, and he wakes up screaming. That night, Latika and Jamal take hot dried peppers and use them to play a prank on Salim. The next day, Maman sends Salim to steal a baby from a girl, because "babies earn double." Salim order Latika to take the baby, even though Latika does not want to, and coerces her into holding it by threatening to drop it on the ground. The school is in fact a training program in which the man who found them- Maman, a gangster-trains children to beg for money. When Latika laughs at him, Salim attacks her, then one of the men. Salim has a very bad voice, and the children laugh at him. As they eat a meal, Salim says to Jamal, "The way he's taking care of us, he must be a good man." That night the man lines up several of the children and has them sing. The three children ride in the back of the van with the men, eventually arriving at what seems like a school, filled with other children. The men greet the boys and one of them hands them each bottles of Coca-Cola, which the boys drink. She calls to Jamal as two men get out of the van and walk towards a small tent in which Salim and Jamal are sleeping. ![]() We see giant trash heaps as Latika climbs on top of one and spies a yellow van approaching.
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