A Passage to India by EM Forster After the most rudimentary assessment, A Passage to India is simply a story, a story of two countries through which we follow a handful of central characters. . As readers, we watch these characters travel from England to India, to mosques, temples and caves. We have a window through which we can visualize their interactions and their location. It is, however, undeniable that A Passage to India tells a story; To say that telling a story is all Forster does in A Passage to India seems to diminish the success of his novel. The appeal of A Passage to India, the life of the novel, lies not in its story, but in the way Forster uses language to persuade readers to broaden their perspectives and see that those we consider less intelligent or sophisticated as we are, are not, deep down, so different, and the boundaries that we see as separating us are not as distinct as we would like to imagine. Forster uses his novel to suggest that, just as two sounds, however different they may be, brought before a hollow cave, will produce identical echoes, examined individually, regardless of the cultures that have come to define them, two seemingly different sounds. different people, however superficially different they may be, are fundamentally one and the same person. When Forester wrote... in the middle of a paper... certainly could have treated the Indians with more respect and thus acted more harmoniously, without having been friends. Perhaps Forster is simply pointing out that “we,” as a human culture, have not yet arrived at that place, a place where we can develop and maintain successful intercultural relationships. Forster suggests, however, that a combination of respect for people as individuals and a belief in the sameness and unity of man can help us get to a place of openness and understanding – a place in which we can be friends. Using his novel as a tool, Forster constructs a model for us through which we can learn to see beyond the boundaries that divide us, preventing us from living in union and harmony. And it also tells a story.