Vaclav and Lena...

     Vaclav and Lena is actually a great book, but just not the type of book for me. It's talks of the relationship between Vaclav and Lena and everything that they've been through. Although I didn't actually enjoy reading the book, it is actually written fantastically. I am no fan of romantic books or movies, because they just don't gie me excitment. Although I didn't enjoy the book, it did reveal sad facts of life to me, and now I'm spending the day thinking about it.
     One plot of the book is focused on Lena's life of sadness and hardship. The only help that she recieved since her birth was the arrival of Vaclav, the love of her life. The sadness this book revealed to me, was the horrid of living in Russia during the 1980's through 1990's becayse due to the goverment collapsing and everything happening at once. There were no jobs and people were all becoming lazy people, with no money, with no job, with nothing except a bit of money which was spent on liqor to make them drunk so they can forget everything.

***Spoiler Alert to Anyone who didn't read this book!!!***

     Lena's mother was a very responsible, and intelligent person, who cared for Lena's aunt when she was young. They were ten years apart, but between them, their mother had a boy but he died soon afterwards. Lena's grandmother would trade the two girls for having the boy back. The grandfather of Lena was a drug dealer, and her grandmother was always drunk and disliked Lena since her birth. Soon Lena's mother wanted money to buy clothes and food, because her family gave her and Lena's aunt nothing. No clothes, no food, no anything they needed. So she quit school, and hung out with the "girls". The girls were people on the street who were prostitudes, and soon instead of being a prostitude for clothing, food, money, she did it for drugs. Also soon Lena's mother gave sex to her father for drugs, due to him being a drug dealer. However soon everything went spiraling down even faster. Lena's mother was pregnant, and soon she and her father was busted for killing a wealthy person's daughter and they were sentenced to prision. However, Lena's mother was innocent but even though if she was innocent, with all other crimes she commitied she would've been executed anyway. In prision she gave birth to Lena and was soon exectued.   
     Since her birth the only person that actually cared for her was her aunt beacuse her mother died soon after giving birth to her in prison. Lena's mother wanted to forget Lena's mother, so she didn't care for Lena at all. Lena's aunt was soon sold to America with Lena along, and Lena's aunt was forced to become a stripper, to pay for all the fake passport, certificates and everything made for her, and Lena. However soon, the evil people who bought Lena and her aunt, was enraveled in debt, because the evil person, opened credit cards and everything in her name, because her credit was slate clean. The evil person kept Lena's aunt in the stripper industry in a club, because if she refused to be a stripper she cannot pay all her debt that the evil person cashed on her credit cards and loans. Each month I guess the evil person paid the debt owed, and the amount of money must be phenominal. Also, Lena's aunt couldn't report this to the police, because everything she had, the green card, passport, Lena's birth certificate, were all fake, so they would be sent to prision. So in other word's Lena's aunt was slave towards the evil person and any customers the evil person found for her. Anyway, soon the person became Lena's aunt's boyfriend.
     Soon another drunk customer of Lena's aunt came to her house for her, but she wasn't there. But Lena was home alone, so he forced her to have sex with him. Rasia, Vaclav's mother went to check on her, found this out, and quickly sneaked out of the house, and went to the police immediately. Rasia acted like the mother of Lena. Lena's aunt was asked who was the person that raped Lena and instead of saying it was the drunk customer, she blamed her boyfriend, because if convicted she and Lena would be finally free. It actually happened, and soon instead of being forced to be in the stripping industry, was was doing it for the money, because she needed money for learning to be a nurse.
     Soon, Lena was taken into Child Care and was given a foster parent. Lena thought that her aunt gave her no love and care, but instead in reality, her aunt didn't want her to know about anything of the tragic life she's living. She didn't want Lena to know that she was forced into the sex industry or anthing, and isntead she wanted to protect her from everything that she was suffering. In fact, her aunt loved her dearly, but didn't want to ruin her life.

*** Spoiler Alert Completed!!! ***

     This book revealed many things that I didn't know, and now I'm thinking about it again and again. I would reccomend this book to anyone, because it was written beautifully. Anyway, have a great day! Also, I wouldn't of read this book if it wasn't because this was the book that I was forced to read for Midwood.

P.S. Only 5 Days Left of Summer!!!
P.S. 2: I'm waking up so early these days...