Le Ly continues her quest to find a good paying job to support her mother and son. She makes a new acquiantance with an American, who wants Le Ly to live with him. He wishes for her to treat him like a husband. At first, it seems that Le Ly has finally found a man who respects her as a Vietnamese woman; however, Jim, her boyfirend, begins to drink heavily and mistreat Le Ly. She turns him into the military police, and she finds justice for his abuse. Le Ly, continuing her search for a good-paying job, turns to the American employment office in Danang. In her second appearence there, a couselor tried to rape her. Le Ly escaped once again finds justice with the American military police. Who would think that the Americans could take the side of a Vietnamese woman over their own countrymen? Her wonder at the issue is shown in an oxymoron below.
"That Americans could take the side of a poor Vietnamese girl over one of their own made that curious nation of
barbarian-saints even more wondrous in my eyes. Perhaps, someplace in this sruel and dangerous world, justice
was the order of the day, and not just the exception" (310).
Le Ly faces abuse in this chapter. Child abuse and neglet is a constant problem in our society. It can not only leave physical scars, but emotional ones as well. A report of
child abuse is made every ten seconds and almost five children every day die from abuse. For statistices go to
http://www.childhelp.org/pages/statistics#gen-stats. .
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