Road of Lost Innocence

In continuing with my reading of the Road of Lost Innocence by Somali Mam, I am constantly amazed at how inhumane people can really be. The part that hurt me the most to read would have to be about the electric shocking and also the part about the snakes. I am still so amazed that some believe that having sex with a virgin will cure them of their diseases, and make them pure again. The level of "ignorance" so to speak has really gone to another level in reading this book. I also give Mam so much credit for being able to write about it herself. After reading about Mam's organization too on her website, I think she is a great person for helping others out that have been in her position. She went through this terrific ordeal and can still live to talk about it. She has turned a bad situation into a learning one and is really making a difference out there. Going back to the book again, the fact that so many young girls are just taught to obey the men that constantly rape them seems so wrong, and it pulls at your heart when you read it. I have read this book previously in my First Year Experience class, but reading it for the second time has opened my eyes so much to the amount of gruesome behavior some people can exhibit towards others.