Burmese Days

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…birthmark. Hse had never known till this moment how dishonouring, how unforgivable a thing it was" pg 275. The charchters in the novel were not succesful at all except for U Po Kyin, they would offer anything they had to give to british and they would just turn there nose up in disgust. Except for the one the rest of the characters were unsuccesful at breaking the racial boundary that seperated the "white" from the rest.