1. Write a summary of Automatic upgrade in about 150 words.

The story is about a man called Ramesh and his grandmother who are traveling by airplane to a place called Surrey in England, to visit Ramesh´s sister and her family. On the way to Surrey Ramesh tell his grandmother that he is giving up his career as a doctor to work in the mobile phone business. His grandmother thinks he is crazy for giving up his career and they are discussing it a bit. After a while Ramesh falls asleep and when he wakes up he finds his grandmother has passed away, Ramesh is getting nervous and worried about what he should tell his sister. The stewards helps him and his grandmother to first class to avoid the other passengers noticing. The story ends with him finding an old letter in his grandmother´s purse which he wrote to her when he went to medical school, apologizing for not being able to come to his grandfather´s funeral.

2. Characterize Ramesh.
Ramesh is an reasonable and polite man he work as an doctor which he has spend five years to train to which his family has paid for his fees. He is giving up his career to work in the mobile phone business because he say there is more money in that type of work than being a doctor though his Nani think it is a stupid idea. It is clear that he thinks of the family by considering changing his career "... his plans to take the family up in the world" but he also think of the farmers and their customers back in India and which opportunities they would have with a mobile phone. Ramesh is 26-year-old and is not married, he has an older sister called Preity who has a husband and three children. Ramesh is really worried about what his sister and her family would say when the airline contacted them, and tell them about that their grandmother passed away on the airplane, he thinks they will call him a walking disaster zone especially when this was the first time he was going to travel with an airplane.

3. Comment on the grandmother and the grandmother´s expectations of Ramesh.
Ramesh´s grandmother is a stubborn old woman, she does not want Ramesh to change his career from a doctor to work in the mobile phone business because having a doctor in the family is good progress and is prestige to have. She does not care about that Ramesh thinks about changing his career is good progress and the fact that he would earn much more money. His grandmother has really high expectations for Ramesh she wants him to be an successful doctor who would get married and have children just like his older sister Preity who is married and have three children. In a way she is worried about Ramesh she wants him to be happy and create a family which is really important to her.
4. Short essay in 150-200 words

If you look back 200 years children in a family did not have the same opportunities to decide what they wanted to be when they grow up like we have today, back then the children could only work with the same kind of work as their parents did. Today young people has a lot of opportunities to study whatever they like and wish to work with, but this is also giving them a hard time to make a choice of what they want to study because there is so many different opportunities! Today you are more free to choose exactly what kind of education you want and are more free to choose what you want with your life than before. In some cases like in the story about Ramesh some families has an expectation to what their children should work with and do with their lives. Ramesh´s grandmother expects that her grandchild should stay being a doctor because it is a long and dedicated education, she does not care about Ramesh´s feelings and what he wants to do with his life.