Maya's Notebook Analysis

Being raised by only grandparents is not easy. “Maya’s Notebook” tells this story of adversity and hope. Aftertimes the best story, like this one, reveals the strength of a young woman.
A teenager named Maya Vidal was nineteen years old and lived in San Francisco, California. She was “shipped” to Chiloé by her grandmother Nadia(Nini). Maya has been in undisclosed trouble, and was being hunted down by the FBI and Las Vegas drug dealers. She was raised by her Chilean grandmother and African American grandfather, Paul Ditson the II, who is Nadia’s second husband. Maya’s father, Andres (also known as Andy) was a pilot and he was always away working. Maya’s Danish mother abandoned her right after her birth. Nidia and Andres immigrated to Canada after the Chilean military took over Chile in 1974. Nidia soon met and married Paul(Popo). Paul worked as an astronomy professor. They both moved to Berkeley, California.
She ran into a tour guide by the name of Daniel and she ends up falling in love with him. She realized that the nine days she spent with Daniel were the happiest days of her life. Manuel tactfully goes on a three-day trip to Santiago, leaving Maya and Daniel to get to know each other. Then Maya’s trust in Daniel grew and she finally told Daniel about her addictions, her rape, and her enslavement to Leeman. Back in autumn 2008, after Leeman dropped her off at the gym. Maya walked to the sauna to decide on what to do on how to get herself back to California because she has no money and no one she knows to help her to get her back home. She feared calling her grandmother and dragging Nidia into the potential danger she was in. A former worker for Leeman showed up to the gym and warned her about that Joe Martin and Chino killed Leeman(Joe and Chino were Leeman’s body guards). They both wanted to find the money that Leeman was hiding for his