Digging Up the Mountains

• insider/outsider: the immigrant and his host-nation
  Hari owning several stores 
  Hari and the political parties, the minister 
  his American connections

• the place: its political situation
  Independence; truth as being relative

• sense of identity 
  the past--Hari and the mountain 
  the present--Hari and the revolver 
  from planting grass to digging up the mountain

• the older generation 
  the mother's powers and fragrance, their revolver