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Lucky Fat
Maly is a young girl who lives in Stung Meanchey. Although she is a couple of years older, Maly is close friends with Lucky Fat. However, after Maly has her first period, she and Lucky Fat fear that her brother, who is in a gang, will try to sell her into prostitution. With help from Lucky Fat, Sang Ly, Lena, and Sopeap, Maly is smuggled out of the dump and taken in by a good, protective family in the city, though she must leave everyone she knows behind.
Maly Quotes in The Rent Collector
The The Rent Collector quotes below are all either spoken by Maly or refer to Maly. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Ten Quotes
This stunningly innocent and beautiful girl of no more than twelve is going to be taken by her brother and be sold to brothel as a child prostitute.
The notion is unthinkable to anyone civilized—but in Cambodia, it happens all the time.
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Chapter Sixteen Quotes
“Most teachers will agree that the true mark of a hero, what sets him apart from everyone else, is sacrifice. A hero gives something up, sometimes even his own life, for the good of others.”
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Chapter Eighteen Quotes
It was just days ago I wanted to kill the criminals myself. But my desire was for revenge on crooks, thugs—dark images of evil that gathered in my head when I pictured the men who beat my husband and Lucky Fat—not boys, especially this boy.
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Maly Character Timeline in The Rent Collector
The timeline below shows where the character Maly appears in The Rent Collector. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter Ten
At first, Sang Ly thinks she must have been assaulted, but the girl, Maly, says that nobody touched her. Lucky Fat explains that while they were picking trash, she...
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However, Maly is still nervous, and mentions that she does not want to be “sent away.” Sang...
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...urge to fight back is motivated in part by revenge. When she tells him about Maly, he agrees they should help, but is not sure how yet, since not even the...
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...Stung Meanchey that a young girl has been kidnapped. During the night, Lucky Fat and Maly think they hear someone sneaking around his hut, so they bring Maly to Sang Ly...
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Chapter Eleven
...Sopeap has not returned, and Sang Ly’s nerves are at their limit from worrying about Maly. She decides to enlist the help of her mother Lena, who is proud of her...
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...a difficult situation, and Sang Ly feels certain that this gesture means Sopeap knows about Maly.
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Chapter Twelve
...picture of him. Lena tells Sang Ly that she has arranged a way to get Maly to safety, away from Stung Meanchey, but they will need Sopeap’s help.
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...she needs to speak to her. Sopeap arrives and reveals that she has known about Maly since she spied her sleeping in Sang Ly’s hut. Sang Ly explains that they have...
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That evening, Lucky Fat and Sang Ly say goodbye to Maly. Sang Ly gives Maly the Cambodian book that Sopeap gave her days before, and promises...
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Chapter Seventeen
...her that the gangs beat up Lucky Fat, apparently because they found out he helped Maly escape. One of Lucky Fat’s eyes is swollen shut, and the gangs smashed all his...
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Chapter Eighteen
...to death, she is horrified. Looking closer, Sang Ly realizes that the dead child is Maly’s older brother. Sang Ly vomits onto the ground.
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...small gifts as funerary offering on the site where he died. Lucky Fat suggests that Maly’s brother can finally watch over her now in the next life, and Sang Ly agrees....
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Chapter Twenty-Four
...is reflecting that each individual person has their own story to tell when she spots Maly walking with an older woman, both chatting animatedly and laughing. Sang Ly is ecstatic, and...
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