She too, had all the wealth, beauty, and power one would love to possess. All of it diminished after a brutal attack from the Barbary pirates. They violently stormed the castle and killed all in sight. These monsters grabbed all the women and used them as sex slaves. The old woman was claimed by the captain and was raped many times. After she escaped, she found a man to help her but was betrayed when he sold her off in Algiers. Throughout the months she“had undergone poverty and slavery, been raped almost every day, seen her mother cut into quarters, experienced hunger and war, and was now dying of the plague in Algiers”(47). Her experience was absolutely agonizing. The woman’s experiences in the novel are far worse than any man. The man is immediately executed if there is to be a war, but the woman get a far worse treatment than
She too, had all the wealth, beauty, and power one would love to possess. All of it diminished after a brutal attack from the Barbary pirates. They violently stormed the castle and killed all in sight. These monsters grabbed all the women and used them as sex slaves. The old woman was claimed by the captain and was raped many times. After she escaped, she found a man to help her but was betrayed when he sold her off in Algiers. Throughout the months she“had undergone poverty and slavery, been raped almost every day, seen her mother cut into quarters, experienced hunger and war, and was now dying of the plague in Algiers”(47). Her experience was absolutely agonizing. The woman’s experiences in the novel are far worse than any man. The man is immediately executed if there is to be a war, but the woman get a far worse treatment than