The road of lost innocence ch.4

As I have been reading this book I have found it to be amazing and I am hooked on it everytime i sit down and read it. Chapter 4; somaly got taken to a strange house where she didn't know where she's be taken. They got her ready with alot of make-up and heels and dress. Yes, she was being taken advantage of and she had never had such a horrible experience in her life. She had a lot of anger towards her grandpa who took her to her aunts house to be a prostitute. Somaly knew that she hadn't done anything bad to her grandpa so that he could do such a thing to her. To her surprise when she was put through prostitution she didn't know what to do or how to act, a man just told her to take off all her clothes and in her head she said she had never taken off her clothes all at once. From the countryside she came from she showered with clothes on so this was shocking and terrfying for her. She had horrible experinces but later found out the reason why her grandpa left her living with her aunt. Somaly found out that her grandpa owed the aunt some money and so to pay off his debt he was using her because he didn't have the money to pay. I had previosly heard about similar stories like the one Somaly lived, but everytime i hear them it makes me sad because how can your own family put you through such trauma. It is just unbelievable and unexceptable. The good thing is that girls like Somaly are strong women who are able to tell us their story and are even able to help other girls like them.

ch 18 industrial revolution

The concept of a "factory" is a new technology. People coming from small towns going to the city where its very different than what they grew up in. During the Industrialization period there was major changes in peoples lives, they experienced new life styles and they worked with new machines. At factories/production lines the workers would have to learn how to use a specific machine and learn how to do just one specific thing, rather than to multi-task like many of them did when they worked in there home small town fields. But there was social consequences and that was; living in a bigger city meant moving away with strangers, being on your own without family members around you. Many employees at these factories got injured and if they weren't good enough to keep working they lost there jobs. It was the "city" so there was tons of people in search of jobs and in search of money. Yes, many of these poor people had to keep working no matter how much they had because they knew that they didn't want to loose their jobs and they certainly did need the money to help their families in the villages.