Moreover, Maria’s courageous behavior shows through her decision, which is working as a drug mule in order to make money for her baby. Specifically, on her way to Bogota to find a new job, Maria was offered a position as a drug mule. The drug mule’s job is to swallow certain number of rubber-wrapped pellets of heroin and deliver them to in to the United States, which Maria had never been before. This job was dangerous. If a single pellet breaks inside her, she would die for an overdose. The author cited Mr. Tobons’ statement, “I began getting tips from the morgue and the police when drug mules died in hospitals or were discovered in some hotel near Kennedy International Airport” (Kilgannon). Thus, working as a drug mule is dangerous because
