Trafficked is a novel about a girl named Hannah. Hanna lives
in Moldova, a small country near Russia. When Hannah’s parents die and her
uncle goes missing, she is left to support her family. Her family is running
out of money and her grandmother needs eye surgery. To help make more money, she
agrees to go to America and be a nanny for a Russian family while she goes to school
at night to become a doctor.
At first, the new family seems very sweet and Hannah fits
right in. But after a month in America, Hannah starts to realize that
everything isn’t as it seems. She hasn’t been paid, she’s not allowed to leave
the house, and she can’t go to school because she has to work 16 hour days cleaning
and taking care of the two small children.
That’s as far as I’ve gotten in the book.
A moment in the book that shows the personality of the main
character is on the first day that Hannah cares for one of the two small
children. Hannah knew she wasn’t supposed to give the little girl an ice cream
bar, but somehow the little girl had convinced Hannah to give her one anyway. They
were both in the kitchen enjoying the ice cream when the parents and other little
kid come home. Hannah rushed to hide what she’d done; she snatched the ice cream
from the little girl and threw both ice creams into the garbage. As the parents
walked in, the noticed the chocolate on their daughter’s face. Everyone
instantly knew what Hannah had done and she felt terrible. The mother of the
children tells her daughter to hand over the chocolate, thinking that she still
has it. The small girl then tells her mother that Hannah snatched it up and
threw it away. Hannah gets in trouble and it shows you how sensative she is. She's afraid of messing up and everytime she does somthing wrong, she feels terrible. This pushes her to work harder and strive to be the best that she can be.
