The protagonist is a young girl who is living in two very different lives, Her name is Ayesha, 18 years old, Her ethnic background is an Asian (Pakistani). Ayesha got sacked from her old job as a retail manager, due to poor attendance. This was very coincidental as her parents were struggling to pay off serious debts at the same time, Her family slowly reached a very low point of their life's were they needed every single penny to make a living for themselves. Ayesha became extremely desperate for money, to a high degree that she got influenced into prostitution, this soon turned into a permanent job for her. The prostitute job is a massive secret, as her family is excessively religious there is no way that they can find out about it, she lies to them; saying she works at a retail shop. Ayesha is represented as a secretive, disloyal, lieing, cheating young girl, she has basically decided to choose money and wealth over religion, faith and family.
Agents of change-
Poverty within the family is the disruption of normality as it is the reason for Ayesha going against her religion and parents to earn money through prostitution. The family is suffering from poverty as Ayesha's fathers corner shop goes 'out of business' which leads them into debt. The disruption ruins a young teens life so it is a very strong turning point in the narrative. Poverty is a key disruption point because it wrecks the relationship between her and the family because they become depressed, low and miserable being blinded by her daughters lies and actions. As we do not have an antagonist in human form we decided to include the antagonist to be one of the key theme of poverty and prostitution.
Conflict complication-
Ayesha tries many attempts to find a suitable job after loosing her job in retail to provide for the family and keep a roof over their heads, but as she fails to do so she turns to the dark, dangerous and desperate road trying to earn money as soon as possible through prostitution.However Ayesha is blinded by her parents state in poverty that she neglects her parents upbringing, the rules and regulations and does what she believes is seemingly right.
Ayesha and her very religious family (two children and parents) face serious debt problems, this changes all of their lives to an extremely low point, as they severely suffer from poverty. Considering that Ayesha lost her job as a retail manager recently, in desperate terms she gets easily influenced into prostitution by a hooker she met on the bus. She ends up going to this secret prostitute house were she can earn 'easy' money. After experiencing it for couple days this Soon becomes a permanent job for her, she socializes and mixes with different people that are troubled and up to no good which manage to change her as a person. As Ayesha's entire family are extremely strict religious Muslims, in-front of them she portrays herself to be this;'innocent, honest, religious kind loving girl' that would never disobey her parents as she reminds them almost everyday how much she's focusing on carrying out a 'successful business' which would make her parents proud. There is no way that she lets them find out she is a prostitute, everything is done secretly. The problem is that it doesn't stay a secret for long at all, her true colours come out as she realises she isn't this 'religious' young women her parents (Nina and riad) force her to be. Instantly this prostitute job has an effect on her lifestyle and the person she is as she turns to drugs, changes the way she dresses, openly smokes and drinks in public. Her parents become aware that she has developed into a terrible person, but are still not fully aware of the full situation, the fact that she is a prostitute. It became regular that Ayesha and her parents would argue at the fact that she needs to fix up and go back to the religious, good person that she was, but she did not seem to care.
Themes of; poverty (The family is suffering from money problems), Religion (A very religious family), Drugs (Ayesha turns to drugs), sexuality (Ayesha becomes a prostitute), isolation and exclusion (Ayesha is living a separate life alone, that her family are not aware of).
Climax & Resolution-
It came to a bad point were both parents had no choice but to confront Ayesha and give her a serious warning. This confrontation led to a deep argument, Out of anger Ayesha reveals all; 'GUESS WHAT MUM AND DAD I DON'T NEED ANY OF YOU'SE! YOUR BOTH SHIT PARENTS ANYWAY, I BET YOU HAD NO IDEA MY NEW JOB WAS ANYTHING GOT TO DO WITH PROSTITUTION' At this moment both of the parents had a sickening feeling in their stomach, out of disgust and hatred towards Ayesha they told her to leave the house with all her belongings and made it very clear to her that she is; 'Completely disowned from today on wards'.
Coda-
Couple months later Ayesha falls in love with an elderly man ( named Rob) that she met through prostitution. She's in a relationship with him were she is supposedly happy and has freedom as he provides her with a home and reasonable amount of food.
The ending will show Ayesha living in a better condition with her boyfriend although its still a dull and boring life, which again emphasizes the reality.
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