Chitra Divakaruni Live Free And Starve Summary

In Chitra Divakaruni’s article “ Live Free and Starve,” she argues the negative effect a bill, crafted with good intention, would have on third world child labourers. The bill would ban the import of goods from countries that implore child labourers, preventing millions of children from being forced to work in dark poorly ventilated rooms chained to their work post. However, the passing of the bill may seem beneficial, but in fact has adverse effects that forces the unemployed children to resort to drastic measures in order to survive. Divakaruni describes her childhood in Calcutta and the experiences she had with a child labourer. A child in her village needed to find work in order to support his family, so the authors mother took him in