(Assignment 5) Time Line

• Lakshmi lives in a village with her family in Nepal.
• Her family hasn't been making any money because of the monsoon season, which it rains to much or it dosnt rain at all.
• The money they make gets all gambled away by the step father so at the end they end up not having money which pushes the step father to sell Lakshmi into prostitution.
• When she arives to the Happieness House she has no idea that shes has been sold into prostitution.
• She finds out when Mumtaz the Brothel owner puts her in a room with the old man who kisses her and tries to force himself into her, Lakshmi fights him off her and runs out.
• Mumtaz sees that she is ready so she tells her to move rooms and to go to a room where other girls are already living; while she is leaving the room she notices that a new girl has moved into her old room.
• She makes new friends with the David Beckham boy who teacher her a little bit of english, the street boy who gives her tea for free, Anita, Pushpa, and Sahanna who are her new room maits.
• One day she has a costumer who is an a American, she is kind of frightend but he does nothing at all to her; he just tries to talk and at the end hands her a white card.
• The street boy gets in trouble for giving out free drinks and not gathering the amount of money he needs so they tell him he wont be selling anymore; he tells Lakshmi and she feels bad and the last day he is there she hands him the card that the american gave her.
• At the end she escapes happieness house thanks to the street boy for calling the americans that help people in that situation.