When one loses the rights to live and the right to be free they can lose hope and it can also affect your mental and physical health. In the book Lina and her family and friends have all of their rights taken and they become more like slaves than prisoners.
All people should have their right to privacy in their own home or wherever they are. In the book, an NKVD guard violated Lina's right to privacy when he forced her and others to take their clothes off and then proceeded to groped Lina which made her feel unsafe and uncomfortable in her own body and she explained her mental state by thinking in the book, “His touch, the rough hand on me, made me feel sick, and dirtier on the inside than I was on the outside.” Lena might have a hard time in the future trusting people since the NKVD officer invaded her body without her saying. They had no privacy what so ever and they had no say in what was theirs or what belonged to the NKVD. In the beginning of the book Lina mother was breaking her best crystal and china on the floor because she would rather break them then have the NKVD take them. “I pulled him back before he could touch the glass “Mother, why are you breaking you're beautiful things?” I asked. She stopped and stared at the china cup in her hand. “Because I
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Lena and her family's right to no unfair detainment was taken when the NKVD officers took them from their home without have any reason to why they were being taken. Lina knew it wasn't just some accidental situation when she stated, “It wasn't knocking. It was an urgent booming that made me jump in my chair. Fist pounded on our front door.” Elena and Jonas were confused at what they could have done to be sent to the camp because they were still children and didn't do anything wrong. “Why were they taking us? Is it really because Papa works at the university? That doesn't make