Summary: “Born into Brothels”, which is directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, is a documentary film about prostitutes’ children in Sonagachi, Calcutta’s red light district, India. Briski, a New York photographer, comes to the red light district to capture the lives of women prostitutes. In order to understand them and their lives, Briski decides to live with them. And that is when she meets the children and develops a closed relationship with them. Those children are curious about Briski and are fascinated by her equipment.
Her next project became the children of prostitutes in Calcutta. She wanted to document the lives of women and children forced into prostitution by their husbands and families in order to support their families. After seeing the children’s environment and learning that there was little or no hope for the young girls to escape the life in which they were born. Zana decided to team up with Ross Kaufmann; an established director who has worked for PBS, The Discovery Channel and many other projects. Together they decided to film the lives of the prostitutes and their children with the hopes of ending the social stigma given to them and improve their lives through social change and education.
“The Lesson” is an essay that looks at wealth through the eyes of a poor black girl whose education includes a trip to one of the world’s premiere toy store. The text discusses serious social issues and the uneducated views of life the narrator and her friends live. The teacher who takes them on the trip is trying to show the students that they can have a different life than the one they are so used too. The lesson is suppose to teach the students in order to get ahead in life they have become educated. “We start down the block and she gets ahead which is O.K.
She has responsibility weighing on her, which are apparent from her opening scene at work in a factory. Maria is not only responsible, she is adventurous, savvy and brave. After quitting her job, Maria got caught up in transporting drugs to the United Sates in order to provide for her family. She realizes there is no opportunity to truly provide for her family, herself and her unborn child if she remains at home. She tells her mother and sister she got a receptionist job, but it requires her to travel.
Evadne took care of hers and Compton’s child Hope, while Compton was in a relationship with Jennifer in New York. Agatha was employed in many underpaid jobs such as being a seamstress, but they fire her but, she will never give up looking for one. As well as the independence of women, support is yet a big part of feminism. Support was evident when Agatha was working with Evadne as
Since Cordelia didn’t have the best home life prostitution was a way for her to maybe feel loved and that she was wanted. In the beginning she did it for pleasure and as she got older it was a way for her to make money. As the story goes on Cordelia never really got out of the effects of poverty. The first example that poverty was an underlining cause in Cordelia life was that prostitution was everywhere around her because she lived in a neighborhood where people were very poor and needed money. This influenced her greatly and got her started on a bad track in life.
In Born into Brothels the children went on very different paths. It all depended on who they were living with or who they weren’t living with. Some children went off to school and others stayed at home helping their families and eventually going into the line of prostitution. There were very different scenarios that could have happened to all children, a single child or a group of them. While most went off to school and studies some were not so reluctant.
When your children got older, you decided to go back to work. You felt you could best serve your community by becoming a public health nurse serving the poorest of the poor in the slums of New York City. It was here that you began to realize what became of your life’s work and your life’s crusade. You began to recognize a cycle of life experienced by poor women. In order to get out of a poor family, young girls would hook their dreams on a relationship or marriage with a poor young man.
The slums where the characters grew up and the upper class toy store the educator took them to acts as micro settings. Also used by the narrator to elaborate on the setting are other micro settings, such as the mailbox as a starting and ending point of the story and the taxicab used as transport between the two areas of social class. Through the setting we are able to see how the central character changes throughout the story. The story begins with the central character portrayed as an uneducated, young black girl and evolves to the end of the story as a motivated, young girl who will use the lesson of economic social structure as motivation to want to succeed. The setting is also a dynamic setting, both in place and in the perspective that grows in the mind of the central
She should be a good person, understanding and being able to love. She should get along well with everybody and she should not live on the streets. She should work, yes she should work. There are girls who drink alcohol and meet on the streets, I would not want this for my daughter. These girls adapt to the streets, they take drugs and get drunk.