I knew nothing about Iqbal Masih before reading this book, I do not know if others know who has been and just to make it known that I decided to write this review.
The book's title is "The manufacturer of dreams " author Andrew Crofts is , a freelance journalist who often lends his skills as a writer to people who have a story to tell but do not have the capacity to do alone and for this reason that at times his name was not even appear on the cover.
the page that precedes the beginning of the book are written in two sentences that I'm going to because I consider important in order to play with the right spirit
Gandhi
1949 "At a time when a slave decides not to be more strains melt. He frees himself and shows the way to the other. Freedom and slavery are mental states, "Abraham Lincoln 1862
" In granting the freedom to guarantee freedom to the slave free "
The story begins a few hours before the end of the life of Iqbal in the first chapter is in fact a guest house where, visiting his mother during the Easter holidays.
Greeted by a crowd of acquaintances came specially to see it because it has become famous, Iqbal would return to the town to Lehore for him every place has become unsafe since he began his struggle against slavery and against the owners of the factories carpet.
is left, however, persuaded by two childhood friends to go to find the father of one of them who want to see it but is busy with farm work.
E 'along the road that the gaiety of the scene of three boys who laugh happy, balanced on one bicycle, is interrupted by a gunshot.
From the second chapter returns to the beginning of the story of Iqbal, who first shot which changed everything was a slave, he became one at age four when his father had sold him, along with brother Patras only two years older, a carpet manufacturer in exchange for a few dollars that would have allowed his brother more buy gifts needed to be married.
nell'accucciarsi work in the factory was in front of a frame and make the wires as quickly and accurately as permitted by its little fingers.
It was taken in the morning and came home late at night, the first few times with his hands covered with cuts and blisters that over time would have been replaced by streets and at least they would not bleed.
His first master is not bad but soon sold it to another manufacturer of carpets. Iqbal is not a slave and his master is normally sold.
The environment of the new factory and the new owner are very different from what they used to. Applies the absolute prohibition of looking up from his work and every little distraction is punished with a stick. Fearful of the consequences
children rarely make a mistake. If someone seriously cut a finger with sharp tools and had to stop working the guards began to shout to be careful not to drip blood sull'ordito. The child had to soak the wounds in boiling oil to make them quit and return to work as soon as they had finished bleeding. The time lost for the accident would have recovered the same evening.
Often the boss accompanied him home to inform his mother of what had been negligent and that he had beaten the weak. It was not true, however, his mother scolded him and slapping too.
the morning at four o'clock every day were getting it from home and he felt lucky because other children lived far away and the factory had to sleep next to the frames.
Sometimes it happened that some of the companions to give up living, the next day in its place was another child.
eight years when he decided to escape and succeeds, but also wanting to save his comrades, he went to ask for help from police officers who, being corrupted, it returned to its owner. And 'at that time who knows the "punishment room". Is beaten savagely, the hands and feet are tied, is hung head down to the ceiling fan while remaining a full day to run along with the fan blades. After having returned to work is inspected at the factory that view is at home because the mother is concerned that should escape during the night.
Iqbal knows that you just have to be patient and sooner or later a good opportunity will present itself and in fact manages to escape again. This time is far from the police and becomes a street child. E 'during the period in which he lives on the street that meets the person who will change his life.
Ehsan Khan, founder of the Bonded Labour Liberation Front, an organization that aims to free the child slaves. Iqbal is struck by his speeches and wants to participate actively in this battle. There are also laws in Pakistan which prohibit slavery, but are not applied to avoid damaging the carpet trade. Westerners love the handmade carpets but do not want to pay that price should have if they were woven by workers rather than children.
The fight is hard, the enemies are many but they are also lots of people who understand that life is horrible that children are operating in the factories. They began to organize raids to free the slaves-children and make the first foray into the factory where he worked Iqbal.
Save the children become the primary objective of Iqbal to which is added in order to study. "If can read and write and do simple accounts at least no one can cheat and make them sign a contract that makes you a slave again, "it had said Ehsan Iqbal and knew that it would be.
Sometimes it happened that the children were freed again taken from the godparents, who were kidnapped them.
"Because the government does not send the police and army to free the child slaves?" Is the question which arises in Ehsan Iqbal and he says that is because they believe that it needs to go. They say that child labor in Pakistan is a tradition and the economy is not structured for a change.
Iqbal continues to fight for knows that if something is wrong should change it at all costs, would not be able to live differently, pretending not to see how often it happens to us, with our consciences who adapt to situations intolerable.
Iqbal's desire was to inform consumers of the fact that Europeans and Americans buying cheaper goods produced in the Third World slaves were free to produce it and in this way, slavery would never end. A
Iqbal was awarded the prize for Human Rights, established by an American corporation (Reebok) and is in the U.S. to receive the award.
becoming increasingly popular and more and more inconvenient for the manufacturers of carpets and that is why he is killed.
The murderers will not settle for getting rid of Iqbal, would use his death to discredit Ehsan and his organization in putting the rumor that he was to kill him to impress public opinion and propaganda organization.
'll do Until that certain situations are immutable, we must accept that some cruel because they are part of the tradition of a people we can not consider ourselves a people CIVIL.
It 's a book to be included in school libraries, as gifts to the children because only if young people know this reality we can hope for a change.
Browsing the Internet I found the site of an organization for the liberation of slaves made up of a young boy who had been listening to a speech by Iqbal. The dream of justice of Pakistan's little hero is contagious, Iqbal is dead but lives on in those who have the courage to commit to realize his ideas of justice and freedom.
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