Marina Chapman was born around 1950 in
Colombia. She was born during the
La Violencia civil war in Colombia which was fought primarily in the countryside. When she was five or six years old, she was taken away from her village (the name of which she was too young to have learned) and taken to a
jungle, which may have been part of the
Amazon rainforest, by an unknown group of persons, where she was left behind and abandoned, for a reason that she did not understand. She was not able to return back home and could not leave the jungle, so she wandered alone in the jungle, for a considerable period of time. Due to lack of food in the jungle, she could not find food and began to suffer from
severe malnutrition and soon suffered total weakness and later
starvation. In her biography she recalls contracting
food poisoning after eating
tamarind, and writes that an elderly
capuchin monkey had led her to a water source which helped her to recover. A neighbour, Maruja, rescued her and sent her to
Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia, to live with one of her daughters. Maruja's daughter Maria adopted Marina when she was approximately 14. ==Analysis==