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Mayra CastanedaEnglish 102Professor Jillian Abbott

Formal Assignment Two

Somaly is cambodia a woman that suffered a lot through her life. She lives in Cambodia.

She was a victim of many types of abuses. She never met nobody that can help her to not suffer

anymore. Somaly had her adoptives family of course but they were not so much help for her

either.

First she was an abandoned child that lived in the forest. She met a family how

sometimes feed and bath her. But then, this family sell he to a man who they called Somalys

grandfather who abused of her for years. e too! Somaly to a strange place and ma!e her

wor!ed for him. Somaly found a new adoptive family there in the new town. "hey made her go

to school and gave her love. Sadly,Somaly got raped because her grandfather needed to pay a

debt to the man who raped Somaly.

#fter that nothing got better for Somaly, she ended up in a brothel when she was forced

to be a prostitute. er grandfather sold her to pay for the debts he had with the brothel. $hen he

died Somaly felt free after years of abuse. "he problem with Somaly in that moment was that she

could not leave to being a prostitute because she did not what else to do.

She finally meet %ierre, and after a period of time she decided to married him to move to

%aris France. She decided to be with him because he spo!e her language and to obtain the French

&isa . "he couple were happy in France, Somaly learned to defended herself and be a strong

woman. She decided that nobody will hurt her again.

%eter decided to come bac! to Cambodia and there is where Somaly started to defend

women who were abused and forced to be a prostitute li!e her. She found a place where any girl

will have help to not suffer the abuses Somaly suffered.

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Somaly decided not to be 'uiet. She decided to fight for all those women. "hat is what

helped Somaly to raised her voice in the Cambodian society. She felt so fed up from all the

abuse she suffered that she does not want nobody go through the same. She wants to be the voice

for all the women who does not have one.

"he methods that she used combat this conspiracy of silence was helping women to

spea!. She went to the brothels and as!ed if anybody needed help. She founded Somaly

foundation (ust to help those women. She started giving soups to the women and taught them

about S")s. She then helped many girls to started a new life.

Somaly is a strong woman who is willing to use any method (ust to see women being free

and not to suffer the same things she did. She also as!ed the authorities to stop helping covering

up the brothels. She made many countries !now about what was going on in Cambodia. Somaly

showed how young girls from five up to seventeen years old were obligated to prostitute

themselves.

She brought up helped and hope to those women. She got help from the *+ to stop the

corrupted system of Cambodia. She taught people to tal! and to defend themselves. $omen in

the brothels were not afraid anymore to spea! to her and as! for help.

"hat is how Somaly brea! the silence in Cambodia. She made sure that anybody who

needed help were listening and supported them to start a new life.

Somaly was an abused woman and the same with osa and Sophia. "hese women were

scared to spea! and defend themselves. "hey were so afraid to get !ill that two of them lost their

children. "hey never have the courage to stop their abusers.

Silence is what made them to suffer. osa was afraid her daughter were end up being

!ill. She never spo!e to nobody about -agda after she died. osa was 'uiet and only thin!ing

about -agda that she forgot to moved on and started a new life. Silence and pain were their

enemies who almost drove her cray. Finally she moved on than!s to her friend %ers!y. She

bro!e the silence and say to herself and the world that magda was gone.

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Sophie also suffered the loss of a children. She moved to a new country to start a new

life. But once again she never spo!e up to stop the abuses from her new boyfriend, +atham . She

let him to abused of her. Sophie thought she deserved all that. #nd she remained silence even

when her boyfriend tortured her physically and mentally. $hen she finally spo!e to Stingo

about her life during the olocaust is when Sophie sowed all her sadness she had inside. She

ended !illing herself from all the pain silence brought into her life .

"hen we have Somaly, a little girl who could not spea! to defend herself. #fter many

years she finally found the courage to spea! for other and defend people who could not spea!

and remained silent as her in her young life.

$hat these three women have in common is that silence really affected their life

somehow. "hey never spo!e up. "hey remained silence and for that they suffered a lot. "hey

were victims of the own silence because silence can destroy you more than anything.