Living in a perfect world and not being part of it? Sound confusing but this is the truth of Malika’s life. I feel indentified with the love she feels toward her mother. What a torture separating each other. I imagine myself in her position and shivers come to my body.
In the book Stolen Lives we can see how money and luxury is not everything. Having everything possible in the world and living like a princess is horrible after being deprived of seeing her mother.
In the past, the arrogance of a king and his selfishness could ruin an inocent girl’s life. Malika’s life was perfect before that day. The day were the King had the wonderful idea of adopting her and separating her from her mother, “tearing me away form [her] mother meant tearing [her] away from life.” (20) This quote left me heartbroken. My mom is everything to me, all of my personality is like hers, the way I think is like her; everything inside me is identical to her. Young girls need the influence from their mother when growing up. They are the ones that form our personality and make us do the things we do. The absence of this influence can be reflected in the future as a bad thing.
Having inner happiness is the essential thing for life. Malika’s depression is becoming the main point of the book, “I saw the live of others, real life, through the windows of the magnificent cars that drove us from one place to another.”(21) She considers herself in a fake world that “belonged to another century, another mentality, other customs. (21)
The writer way of writing makes the reader feel connected with what he is writing. Her tone is suspensive making the reader intrigue with what will happen, “next was a blur in my mind, as if I were the victim of a kidnapping.” (20) With this the author is manipulating the reader’s mind and making us feel interested with the book.
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