What Really Difficult Things are Happening in "Homeless Bird"?

            I am reading Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan. In the book, Koly, a 13-year-old girl who lives in India, is forced to marry a boy that she's never met before. She is also forced to leave behind her whole family to live with him and his parents. There are a lot of injustices in the book, and at a lot of parts where I feel empathy for Koly.
            First of all, Koly does not get a say in anything. When she was living with her parents, she was not able to go to school like her younger brothers did. Instead, she was forced to do the women's jobs - caring for the house and cooking. I can't imagine being in Koly's place, unable to go to school just because I am a girl. Then, her parents tell him that she suddenly has to get married. She has no voice in this decision, and it is only up to her father. Koly must then say goodbye to her parents and brothers, and move onto her new family that she's never even seen.
           After her marriage is sealed, things only get worse for Koly. Her new husband is very sick and younger then they said and she can't see him or talk to him. Her mother-in-law is not nice to her, and forces her to do all the housework. Koly's new husband starts to get more sick, and on a trip to the Ganges River, which his parents think will hopefully cure him, he dies. Koly then finds out that the reason the boy's parents wanted him to marry her was because they needed the money to get to the Ganges. Koly is a widow at age 13, but is still unable to return to her family. Her mother-in-law continues to order her around, and Koly has no control.  
               In Homeless Bird, I think that Koly's perspective is missing in a lot of situations. For example, at the beginning of the book, when her parents announce that they will be finding her a husband, Koly could not disagree or say that she's too young even if she felt she was. She has no choice when it came to leaving her parents, brothers, and village and moving to a place far away. She had no voice in her family - when she wanted to talk with her husband, her mother-in-law would not let her, and she realizes that she had simply been used for her parents' money. Now that her husband is dead, Koly's mother-in-law just thinks of her as another mouth to feed. Throughout the whole beginning, it seems like Koly's situation is just getting worst, and the power she has to dictate her own life starts to shrink.  
                In conclusion, there are a lot of really difficult things happening to Koly in Homeless Bird. She is forced to marry a boy who she's never seen before, and his family is not very welcoming of her. Also, Koly's voice is left out of many decisions about her life, including if she was ready to get married or not. I think that the title "Homeless Bird" represents Koly. She is without a home because she is no longer living with her parents and brothers, she is now living with her in-law's and they do little to welcome her, and it's really not where she belongs. It's not a home to her. Koly is also like a bird, because she flies to wherever she has to go, but also dreams of flying elsewhere.