• What does the title mean? How does the title and the
contrasts within it provide symbolic summary of the film?
The title, Slumdog Millionare, I think that it gives us the introduction about what the movie is going to be about, and in this case is telling us that maybe one of or the main character is going to be a poor person and later on, he or she will have money and be a rich person.

• Early in the film we see the young Jamal dive into a latrine
pit to steal a glimpse at a visiting movie star. How does his
single-mindedness to see this movie star reveal his determination?
What other examples do you see in the film of his
determination?
I think, that he doesn’t care about what he has to do in order to get what he wants, because for example, when he dive into the latrine pit he knew that the movie star was going to be once, just that day, and it was he’s only opportunity to do it, so he took the risk in order to get what he dreamed about. Another aspect in his determination, is when he wants to find Latika and he spends all his childhood and adolescence trying to find her, and when he wants to rescue her, and he finally do it.

• In the film, the theme of destiny is a central theme. What
does it mean that all Jamal desires is just out of his reach?
(The prized autograph, Latika, his brother, the answers, etc.)
I think that everything that happen to Jamal was for one reason, was to giving him the necessary tools in order to answer each one of the questions in the game, and rewarding everything he suffered in his life like poor boy.