Fantasy vs. Reality

Lakshmi's fantasy of the city differs from the reality because her fantasy of the city was for the houses to have golden roofs, beautiful houses, the people to have on beautiful clothes; the opposite of what her home land is like, but when she gets there, she is dissapointed because all she sees are huts, and huts, and huts; it's just like her homeland and worse. I know this because on page. 79, it says "As the train glides to a stop, I hold my bundle close and look out the window for the golden roofs. What I see first is one hut, swaybacked as an old water buffalo. Then another, and another until theres nothing else but hut, after hut, after hut. But no roofs of gold. No date or mango or orange trees, and no movie stars." This shows that when she got to the city, it wasn't anything like what she expected because intsead of the city being a fantasy land like she had hoped, it was as bad as her worst nightgmare.