Timeline- Assignment 5

*1.- Lakshmi lives in a small hut in a village with her mom, stepfather, and little brother in Nepal.
*2.- Lakshmi has her very first period at the age of 13 and her mother teaches her what she needs to know.
*3.- There's been 60 days without rain, so the rice plants are drying up, when the rain finally falls, it takes everything with it.
*4.- One day, stepfather comes home and tells Ama Lakshmi will have to work as a maid.
*5.- They go to a store to meet a lady from the city which Lakshmi has seen before in the village festival who she is to call Auntie Bimla.
*6.- Stepfather asks for 800 rupees for Lakshmi and so the lady takes her to the city.
*7.- Auntie Bimla takes her to meet Uncle Husband, who takes her across the border.
*8- She is told she will work as a maid at a place called Happiness House,were she is sold by uncle husband for 10,000 rupees and meets Mumtaz, (the pimp)and other young girls.
*9.- Once she is there, she is very curious about everything, but she doesn't know she is actually in a brothel and her virginity is sold to a man named Habib.
*10.-That brothel was the witness to all of Lakshmi's suffering, as it was for her success. She learned English, Hindu, and the language everyone speaks there thanks to an 8 yr. old named Harish.
*11.- She also meets a street boy who sells tea and who knows everyone in the village.
*12.- He is the one who tells an American about the brothel who goes and saves Lakshmi and arrests Mumtaz.