Inquiry Question #2: How are issues treated in your young adult fiction book?
The book that I recently finished is called "Trafficked" by Kim Purcell. In this book, sixteen year old Hannah has a job offer from Los Angeles. A family wants to bring her over and want to make her a nanny for their family. The people promise her $400 a week and her own room inside the big house. She was blown away by the offer and decided to go. But the company that was smuggling her had to make her fake documents. On her way to the airport with Volva, one of the agents, who was supposed to give her her fake papers, she asked for her forged documents. Unexpectedly, Volva demanded a bribe before he would hand over her passport. After receiving only forty dollars, Volva assured her that there were other ways to pay. But now he didn't want her money, he wanted her body.
This brings us to our answer. Hannah has to deal with many situations in this book. Unfortunately, she can't get out of all of them scratch-less. Twice in this book Hannah has to use her body to crawl out of tight situations. One of them, which I already mentioned, was on her way to the airport. Another one occurred after her grandma died. While Hannah became highly depressed over the death of her grandma, Sergey, her employer, took advantage of this situation to have sex with her. This goes to show how some men have no respect for a women's body. Hannah pleads him to get off of her and Sergey reluctantly does, but he wasn't finished. He touched her inappropriately and left her after he was done. But he also left $300 for her. Hannah felt like a prostitute but she desperately needed money so she hesitantly took it.
This story was focused on the side effects of human trafficking, but it held little messages inside them. One of which showed how women have to sell themselves for what they need. This answers my inquiry question. Certain issues are treated in this book with sex. Men take advantage of a desperate women and force them to something that they don't want to do.
This brings us to our answer. Hannah has to deal with many situations in this book. Unfortunately, she can't get out of all of them scratch-less. Twice in this book Hannah has to use her body to crawl out of tight situations. One of them, which I already mentioned, was on her way to the airport. Another one occurred after her grandma died. While Hannah became highly depressed over the death of her grandma, Sergey, her employer, took advantage of this situation to have sex with her. This goes to show how some men have no respect for a women's body. Hannah pleads him to get off of her and Sergey reluctantly does, but he wasn't finished. He touched her inappropriately and left her after he was done. But he also left $300 for her. Hannah felt like a prostitute but she desperately needed money so she hesitantly took it.
This story was focused on the side effects of human trafficking, but it held little messages inside them. One of which showed how women have to sell themselves for what they need. This answers my inquiry question. Certain issues are treated in this book with sex. Men take advantage of a desperate women and force them to something that they don't want to do.
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