Aqueela Asifi Chapter Summaries

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Can you imagine your daughter not being schooled, having no rights, and being sold into prostitution? Aqueela Asifi was an Afghani woman who fled the civil war in Afghanistan, she was faced with many obstacles and when she came across a small town in Afghanistan she wasn't pleased with what she saw. Girls in the town she fled to didn't go to school. Asifi single handedly founded a community where girls could go to school and get an education. McCormick was successful in presenting the idea of struggles that girls of all ages go through in the Middle East to a teenaged american audience. Overall through the book he showed examples of the lack of women's rights, lack of knowledge in women, and debt bondage. She showed the struggles that real …show more content…

I believe an example from the book is when Anita gets beaten with a metal pipe for trying to escape. Anita is beaten by Mumtaz’s guards the Goondas. Another example is when Monica has a baby and is forced to stay in the brothel so that she has a place to shelter the baby. These are both example ofthe lack of rights that women have. It really puts emphasis on the restrictions that they have in that society. Another big issue that McCormick talks about is the fact that women don't know what they're getting into. Girls and women both are being sold into these brothels without even knowing. In the book Lakshimi thinks she's being brought to be a made in a house but in all reality she's being sold into prostitution. Another example is when the American shows up and Lakshimi instead of being excited is scared of the american and thinks that he will strip her naked and make her walk in the streets. The third issue McCormick talks about is Debt bondage and how girls are forced to stay in these houses because they have to pay off their debts. An example from the story is the poem “calculations” it talks about when Lakshmi says she only has to stay for a little while longer but in reality there are plenty of other ways she has to pay off Mumtaz. Another example from the

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