I believe that there are people in this world that do not have an easy life, because of the insensibility of others that just want to make money for themselves without caring for other people life, belief, or feelings. In the essays “Tea and Kidnapping” by Sara A. Topol and “Dreaming of El Dorado” by Marie Arana we can experience the inhumane treatment that these people experience in their own country.
Sara A. Topol in her essay “Tea and Kidnapping” show to the reader that there are two side to every story. The first one is the side that the media interprets and the second one is the reality of what actually is happening in those countries. In this essay we can notice that the desperation that these people have, make them to kidnap tourist…show more content… Arana describes people’s lives in this community, and what they need to through in order to have a little bit of money to survive. This essay made me sad and aware that there is always someone that is living a life worse than mine and anyways they give it all in order to have just a little bit to take care of their families, like those children who risk their lives in the mines to help their parents to sustain the family. This essay is another example of how the power instead of helping out, tries to keep people of lower resources to never improve that way they always have the power and the money without caring for other lives. When Arana says that “[for] 40 years now, the Peruvian government has turned a blind eye to increasingly wretched conditions in this remote community, its government agents unwilling to scale the heights, brave the cold, take control”, I noticed that the government just do not care for this community labor style that as long as they are giving the government profit, that work for it. Also, it make me think that the government do not want this community to get out from this horrible life style, because by giving to the employees a miserable salary obligate them to let their children to work rather than going to
