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The Rent Collector

Camron Wright

264 Pages

Garbage Trucks

Three Lessons I Learned

These are the garbage trucks that would carry the new garbage daily. If you weren't first in line to pick when they came, you most likely got nothing good. The drivers wouldn't care if you got run over, there were several deaths and injuries.

Shacks

  • Literature is much more than what we make it out to be. There is more meaning, depth, and it can help describe our daily lives.
  • I need to be grateful for what I have. The saying, "Another man's junk is another man's treasure" really comes into play and helps me realize all the good that I have.
  • I am more than blessed to be able to read.

Dilemma

Introduction

Sang Ly and Ki Lim have a sick child and have to deal with visiting and paying for healers, doctors, and miracle workers. They have to find a way to budget what money they happen to get from trading recyclable garbage found at the dump to pay the medical bills but also the rent collector. Yes, they pay rent, even in a literal dump. But as her and her husband battle with their situation they find that "the cow", the drunk rent collector isn't all that she seems to be. They find the truth behind her. Sopeap Sin happens to see a book that Sang Ly finds while scavenging. As Sopeap's emotions rupture, Sang Ly knows something is not right. After learning her secret, Sang Ly bargains with Sopeap, who eventually teaches her to read. And during their miraculous journey together, Sopeap is stricken ill and their schooling comes to an abrupt stop.

Characters:

Sang Ly

Ki Lim

Sopeap Sin

Nisay

Story Line:

Sang Ly and Ki Lim are living at the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They survive by picking trash, and living on whatever they are lucky to find. Faced with not only their sick child, Nisay, who never seems to get better, but also a grumpy rent collector.

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