The last third of the book was dreadful and relieving. At this point in the book, so many questions were running through my mind: "would she be saved?" "will Mumtaz ever let her go?" "will they just throw her out on the streets?", it was dreadful being stuck worrying about this main character that we learned to love. The end made it relieving because Lakshmi was saved and it was relieving to know that she would be okay after everything. "I just want enough to pay the street boy what I owe. 'what do you care?' I say. 'It is my money. My family wont miss a few rupees.' She laughs. 'You think the money goes home to your family?' she says." at this moment,  I was crushed. I thought for sure that Lakshmi wasn't going to make it long after that. The author did a great job at making the girl seem hopeless. The way that the last third of the book was written, kept you thinking that nothing good would ever happen until the very last pages. Leading up to this, was dreadful.

My favorite part of the book is the very end when Lakshmi is saved. I love this part because the leadup is very well done in the way that it makes you think that nothing good will happen for this girl. Throughout the book i have learned to like this character and i feel for her. At this point all the reader wants is for something good to happen to this poor girl. And right when you start to think that she will never be saved, the police come and take her away. It also well done because anything could have happened when she went with the "police". They could have been men who tricked her and then kept her in another whore house. Or, they could have taken her home to her family. It is up to the reader to decides what happened to Lakshmi.