An Emotional Story: Sold This book has a lot of educational value because it shows how a young girl uses education to save her life. In the book sold, Patricia MCcormick writes about a girl who is forced into sex slavery and learns that education can help her get out of prostitution. In Sold, Patricia MCcormick demonstrates Education through Hamish teaching Lakshmi how to read, teaching herself how to write when writing in her journal, and seeing the positive in her life when there was negative all around her.
Hamish showed how important education is and how it will help her to escape sex slavery. “ I was taught how to read, so now I can read books, signs, and do my calculations” (pg. 147). This shows how Hamish is teaching her how to read and do things correctly. This shows how what she's learning can help her in the future and how she can escape sex slavery. Lakshmi also learns how to keep the positive in her life by learning and she teaches herself how to write in her journal, this shows she is being independent. …show more content…
“ I am sitting on my bed, adding yesterday's profits to the tally in my notebook and writing about what happened that day, when the David Beckham boy comes in” (pg. 163). This shows Lakshmi being independent and showing what she has learned. It also demonstrates her being independent and not asking Hamish for help, and doing things on her own. When Lakshmi is on her own teaching herself how to learn it shows that she wants to be educated and use this in the future and that she wants to use her resources to get her freedom back and not be in sex
Hamish showed how important education is and how it will help her to escape sex slavery. “ I was taught how to read, so now I can read books, signs, and do my calculations” (pg. 147). This shows how Hamish is teaching her how to read and do things correctly. This shows how what she's learning can help her in the future and how she can escape sex slavery. Lakshmi also learns how to keep the positive in her life by learning and she teaches herself how to write in her journal, this shows she is being independent. …show more content…
“ I am sitting on my bed, adding yesterday's profits to the tally in my notebook and writing about what happened that day, when the David Beckham boy comes in” (pg. 163). This shows Lakshmi being independent and showing what she has learned. It also demonstrates her being independent and not asking Hamish for help, and doing things on her own. When Lakshmi is on her own teaching herself how to learn it shows that she wants to be educated and use this in the future and that she wants to use her resources to get her freedom back and not be in sex