Prayer For The Stolen Analysis

The novel “Prayer for the Stolen,” has many references to the drug cartel and sex trafficking in the southern part of mexico, by showing how young girls need to protect themselves and hide from the narcos in order to survive. Throughout the southern part of Mexico’s past, young girls are being forced to hide from drug traffickers who are trying to kidnap to sell them. These drug traffickers, take young girls in order to sell them as prostitutes or use them as farmers in order to sell different types of drugs. They are putting many girls lives in danger causing the girls to hide and live in terrible conditions pretending to be male. The author of the book refers to these traffickers as “mafias dealing in extortion, kidnapping, and drug trafficking.” Not only has this …show more content…
The novel follows a girl who lives in Guerrero and dresses up as male sp that she doesn't get stolen. She even mentioned that if “she were a girl, she would be stolen,” (pg.3 paragraph 5). She then goes on to explain how her along with other girls had to dig holes in the ground in order to hide from the drug cartel. She described herself along with the other girls “like rabbits that hid when there was a hungry stray dog in the field.” (pg.4 paragraph 11). This simile shows how the girls must have felt, showing their fear and the crazy things they had to do in order to keep themselves safe. In the novel the narcos were on the lookout for the prettiest girls nearby, so they could be sold off as prostitutes, “they’s sweep onto” the lands and “carry the girl off.” (pg 3, paragraph 5). This shows how they were looking for the women and how they would just come and kidnap them in order to use them. Overall, the novel is about the drug cartel and sex trafficking in the southern part of Mexico. It shows how girls had to protect themselves and the crazy things they had to do so they wouldn’t get