Patricia McCormick is a journalist and realistic fiction novelist for young adults. In her 2006 novel, Sold, McCormick illustrates the life of the average female child who is sold into human trafficking in East Asia. Her novel confronts many issues that plague areas that are impacted heavily by human trafficking, such as the conditions that allow such atrocities and atmosphere of silence and ignorance that aids in perpetuating the problem. McCormick uses her position as a journalist and writer to shed light on these issues, in order to create awareness and bring about change in these areas.
To create a realistic story about human trafficking, without stripping the character of their humanity, McCormick got first-hand experience with the problem by going to countries such as Nepal and Calcutta to confront the issue head first. She explains how human trafficking, especially in regards to children, play a prominent role in the societies of these two countries. She would personally go into these brothels, interviewing the girls who worked there, both …show more content…
In her attempt to try to educate the families in these villages about what was really happening when they sold their daughters, McCormick and the brothel workers that occasionally accompanied her would experience severe backlash, as the families would reject the girls, claiming they had contracted the “city disease”, or AIDS. Having worked in the brothels that they were forced to work at, these girls were alienated from the society that directed her onto the path of sex labor. This shame eventually created a culture, in regards to the brothel workers, which promoted silence and hiding their
To create a realistic story about human trafficking, without stripping the character of their humanity, McCormick got first-hand experience with the problem by going to countries such as Nepal and Calcutta to confront the issue head first. She explains how human trafficking, especially in regards to children, play a prominent role in the societies of these two countries. She would personally go into these brothels, interviewing the girls who worked there, both …show more content…
In her attempt to try to educate the families in these villages about what was really happening when they sold their daughters, McCormick and the brothel workers that occasionally accompanied her would experience severe backlash, as the families would reject the girls, claiming they had contracted the “city disease”, or AIDS. Having worked in the brothels that they were forced to work at, these girls were alienated from the society that directed her onto the path of sex labor. This shame eventually created a culture, in regards to the brothel workers, which promoted silence and hiding their