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that looks like her daughter Lay Choo, she was with other school girls that are dressed up and very bold, he followed them as they entered a coffee shop where he used to pick a customer who s going for a good time, in the very next day that he saw the girl, he so sure that the girl was Lay Choo, so when he got to grab her, he slap her and drag her to his taxi, he was so angry that when he drove her home, he slapped her and almost kill her daughter, she was lucky that he was pulled back by his wife and his neighbor, he locked Lay Choo to a room for three day, and never let her out, he just told Lay Choo s teacher that his daughter is sick and asked the teacher to excuse her in class, that event made him feel ashamed and felt bad for her daughter. After that event, he realized that

this social problem that he knew and witnessed almost every day of his profession has grown and he never thought that he will be a victim where as he was earning from them, he never thought that Lay Choo who s very smart and intelligent was one of them, that Lay Choo was fooling them in saying that she has to return to the University to cope up with her math lesson, he realized that her daughter was so week that she was let her self be one of the girl that sells them self just for they vises and leisure s. Although prostitution in Singapore is very rampant and need a long time to stop, but the taxi men was able to help lessen the prostitution problem when he took out his daughter from her wrong doing, by talking to her customer he was able to make them feel about what he felt

when he learned that her daughter Lay Choo was one of them, the impact that that short conversation from the taxi men to his customer is a big factor because it made them aware of what happening, and upon learning to what the taxi men experience with her daughter, the customer might done what the taxi men did to his daughter, they might become strict to their daughters and prevent them to going with different girls which they don t know the background, or may be they will guard them with what they do and people they go with. In the story, it was the time that the taxi men caught her daughter Lay Choo entering the coffee shop where the prostitutes are going is the turning point of the story or the climax, it assemble a sense of irony in the story because readers never thought that

Lay Choo way one of the prostitutes, may be if never saw Lay Choo walking to the coffee shop, she may be continuing selling her body to the foreigners, but luckily the taxi men saw Lay Choo which made him very angry. The ending of the story was not that pleasing in the sense that the readers has no satisfaction knowing that the main element in the story was not sub due, the story ended when he finally drop his customer to the place where he was asked to go, and asked if he can wait for another 30 minutes so that he has a ready ride, but the taxi men hesitated, may be because he might drop by where prostitutes and foreigners meet, or may be he might rode around the coffee shop where Lay Choo usually go, he might do a little stocking, although the story ended in a simple manner,

the author did not mentioned about the taxi men s daughter, she might have been disciplined by her father by locking her in her room, or she might be allowed to go out their house only when there s a permission from her father, there might be a little change took place in the taxi men, 324