Le Ly is challenged with overcoming obstacles and finding trust. She finds that "what she lacked in faith" she "made up for in hope" as she uses optimisim as a source of energy to move forward (168). She became fearful for the life of her father who was alone and chriticized by the village. She was also fearful of men due to her past experiences of brutallity and she was challenged to rediscover trust.
"It occured to me then that many things I had previously seen from one side might, in fact, have other prospectives." (185)
Le Ly's motivation to see the world from a more objective view came from the actions of those around her that defiled normal stereotypes of the time. She learned that not all men were cruel and that cultural or racial classifications were only a method of exterior devision. True differences in people could only be defined by personality differences. As a result, Le Ly began working with people who were often avoided by selling on the back market to all men she found trustworthy including those with glasses who had originally been seen as dangerous or Americans who were capable of imprisoning her.
Descrimination continues to be a component of society today as people struggle to put faith in one another based on age, gender, race, or cultural differences. From the beginning of time, people have been seperated by physical differences including the enslavement of Isralites in Biblical times to the enslavement of Africans in one's own colonial history. Countless cases of descrimination are fought in courts across the country and around the world as seen in the 2009 US Statistics of Discrimination and Retaliation. To see these statistics, please visit http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/enforcement/index.cfm.
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