Assignment five

A timeline of Lakshmi's story

• Lakshmi lives in Nepal in the village


• She loses her best friend, Gita and has her period,


• Her town and family go through the dry season. or aka a drought


• it starts raining so much that it suddenly loses its luxury


• Ama gives away her earrings to save her family from poverty well worse poverty


• Her stepfather sells her to work with a stranger from the city as a "maid."


• Lakshmi moves to a city in India on a bus, by foot, and by car.


• She is scared and wary of the way she doesn't know what to expect from the "Happiness House'


• Mumtaz tries top force her to have sex with the "old man."


• She starves herself rebelling against Mumtaz and her beatings.


• She drinks a cup of lassi that paralyzes her and leans her toward being raped from Habib to a lot of other men


• She meets her roommates and David Beckham Boy.


• She is taught by Beckham but later he leaves forced out by Mumtaz


• She meets a man that shows her kindness after so long


• Monica is kicked out of the brothel for having the sexually transmitted disease


• She meets the first American giving her a glimpse of a possible new life and a card




• There's a police raid and another friend leaves her: Shahanna


• the street boy gives her a gift a cup of tea


• She's desperate now to get out so she becomes the thirsty vine women


• The street boy is gone and Lakshmi gives her the card with the hope of getting out


• She meets the American with the digital camera


• She spends days trying to hide the truth from Mumtaz but her hiding falters when she almost gives herself away to Mumtaz


• the American comes and saves her


• Lakshmi escapes the brothel

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