In Chitra Divakaruni’s compelling essay “Live Free and Starve”, she describes what would happen to the children who are working in factories across third world countries when child labor laws were passed here in America. She argues that instead of granting these children their freedom the bill will increase poverty and will lead to the unemployment of the children in these countries. Divakaruni begins with informing her audience the bill that the House has passed stating that the U.S. will prohibit the import of goods from factories that use child labor. She congratulates the U.S. for this “triumphant advance in the field of human rights” (paragraph 1). But she seems to imply that something is wrong. Her description of the children’s future