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In the essays A Web of Brands and Live Free and Starve by Naomi Klein and Chitra Divakaruni, both authors express the different aspects and their opinions of globalization. Naomi Klein focuses on the effects of globalization. In A Web of Brands, Klein looks at how the changes of the garment industry in Toronto connect to the factories of Jakarta, Indonesia. Chitra Divakaruni argues that the United States attempts to stop the practices of indentures, would have terrible consequences even though the efforts are well intended. Naomi Klein begins her essay by describing the look of the old garment factories in Toronto and how, no one has come up with a way to make a profit out of taking a wrecking ball to these boxes of brick, and in this†¦show more content†¦If the children themselves were asked whether they would rather work under such harsh conditions or enjoy a leisure that comes without the benefit of food or clothing or shelter, I wonder what their response would be. (Diva karuni 449) Â…it seems inconceivable to us that someone could actually prefer bread to freedom. (Divakaruni 449) It is a hard thought to swallow, and I think that is what Divakaruni wants her readers to understand. In paragraph six, Divakaruni describes that when she was young, there was a boy that used to work at her house. His uncle had brought him to her family because his parents were too poor to provide for him. Her mother treated this young boy fairly, providing him with everything that Chitra and her siblings received. Chitra Divakaruni uses this story as an example to show that if an anti-labor law prohibited her mother to hire the young boy, what would he have been left with? Nothing. Every year, when we went to visit our grandfather in the village, we were struck by many children we say by the mud roads, with their ribs sticking out through the rags they woreÂ…Whenever Nimai passed these children, he always walked a little taller. 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