Live Free And Starve Analysis

It’s probably hard for an American, Britain, Canadian, and in general just advanced country citizens to consider this, but attempt to think of a life to which you have to work, actually work to live. Imagine someone owns you and you do things like pick flowers and roses, while getting pierced by thorns and scraped by roots. Envision that this is the only thing you can do to create a life for your family. This is the only thing you can do to provide food and a home for your family. Now, imagine someone taking this away from you, the same people who are benefiting from your labor. This how a citizen in a third world country feels right now. Child Labor is the source of economy for Third World Countries. Many people turn a blind eye to this …show more content…
Although, it is understandable for America to want to help and do good in this situation, but quite frankly as someone who has been to a third world country and has first hand seen this child labor; it’s not needed. Chitra Divakruni, the author of “Live, Free and Starve” stated, ; “…It is easy for us in America to make the error of evaluating situations in the rest of the world as though they were happening in the country and purpose solutions that make excellent sense- in the context of our society.” America cannot and should not be expected to understand the conditions of other countries, and we shouldn’t feel the need to input in these …show more content…
Maria works in a factory and she processes flowers so it can be exported to other countries. Because there are not enough provisions in the family to support them, she works long hours just to get half the amount of the average minimum wage in America. Maria just discovered she was pregnant and as any normal woman she experienced temporary sickness. After throwing up and fainting, instead of allowing her to take a recommended amount time away from work, her boss began insulting her and demanding her to proceed. After this situation, Maria decided it was time for her to quit the job although she had no other source of income. Because of the extremely poor condition her family was in after she quit, she joined a cartel and swallowed pills (while carrying a baby) and smuggled them out of the country. To sum up the movie we see her journey to America and the many awful things she had to witness as a carnation in the