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Growing up is always tough on kids but there are some situations that can make that process more difficult than it needs to be. The daily success or struggle in our living environmengt plays a huge part in what type of person we are going to grow into. In the book Sold written by Patricia McCormick, Lakshmi is not your average thirteen year old girl; tragidity strikes and she has to leave the little village to support her family. As she travels through India to get to “Happiness House” she soon comes to find out that she has been sold into prositution. As time continutes her life gets worse and the simple pleasures of her my brushing her hair by the oil lampor her goat become a distant memory. Throughout the story Lakshmi comes into contact …show more content…
As we first get introduced to Nepal which is the small village that Lakshmi has lived there her whole life with her mother and step father. She was an average thirteen year old kid as in the fact that she did no harm and believed she had a happy life. She goes through her daily life with her goat and cucumbers without worrying about anything. “ Each of my cucumbers have a name….I treat them all as my childern.” This statement by Lakshmi shows her innocence becasue of how she cares for the littlest thing, like the cucumbers. She sees rasising kids in her future and being a mom in the village. She sees the beauty in her village and always talks about it. Carrying the water to her delicate cucumbers she walks up ans down the hill and that walk changes the view of the village; from a far she realizes the true beauty of the village. “On those …show more content…
She didn’t know where she was, untill Mumtaz explained her part at the Happiness House. The so calleed Happiness House was dim light house with no windows at all. The pitch balck house was a symbol of the miss She is shocked by the idea of her becoming a prosititude. She begain to live the life of being drugged and raped; no thirteen year old should go through. The pain was so much for her, she was unble to handle the man unzipping her pants. “I hurt. I am torn and bleeding where the men have been.” Lakshmi was not in control of anything and lost all of the little hope she had once she entered the Happiness House. She went from being in a village taking care of her cucumbers( she thought of them as childern), finding a husband to grow old with to being molested by men that she doesn’t know. She is miserble of the isolation that Mumtaz controled. “ Leaving, I say. I'm going home. Mumtaz laughs. Home? she says. And how would you get there? I don't know. Do you know the way home? she says. Do you have money for the train? Do you speak the language here? Do you even have any idea where you are?" This conversation with Lakshmi and Mumtaz shows Lakshmi that she really has no place to go and is never going to see her old life again. She had no money, no means of transportation and no stragegy of getting out of the pit called Happiness House. She came to a realization that even if she was able to
Growing up is always tough on kids but there are some situations that can make that process more difficult than it needs to be. The daily success or struggle in our living environmengt plays a huge part in what type of person we are going to grow into. In the book Sold written by Patricia McCormick, Lakshmi is not your average thirteen year old girl; tragidity strikes and she has to leave the little village to support her family. As she travels through India to get to “Happiness House” she soon comes to find out that she has been sold into prositution. As time continutes her life gets worse and the simple pleasures of her my brushing her hair by the oil lampor her goat become a distant memory. Throughout the story Lakshmi comes into contact …show more content…
As we first get introduced to Nepal which is the small village that Lakshmi has lived there her whole life with her mother and step father. She was an average thirteen year old kid as in the fact that she did no harm and believed she had a happy life. She goes through her daily life with her goat and cucumbers without worrying about anything. “ Each of my cucumbers have a name….I treat them all as my childern.” This statement by Lakshmi shows her innocence becasue of how she cares for the littlest thing, like the cucumbers. She sees rasising kids in her future and being a mom in the village. She sees the beauty in her village and always talks about it. Carrying the water to her delicate cucumbers she walks up ans down the hill and that walk changes the view of the village; from a far she realizes the true beauty of the village. “On those …show more content…
She didn’t know where she was, untill Mumtaz explained her part at the Happiness House. The so calleed Happiness House was dim light house with no windows at all. The pitch balck house was a symbol of the miss She is shocked by the idea of her becoming a prosititude. She begain to live the life of being drugged and raped; no thirteen year old should go through. The pain was so much for her, she was unble to handle the man unzipping her pants. “I hurt. I am torn and bleeding where the men have been.” Lakshmi was not in control of anything and lost all of the little hope she had once she entered the Happiness House. She went from being in a village taking care of her cucumbers( she thought of them as childern), finding a husband to grow old with to being molested by men that she doesn’t know. She is miserble of the isolation that Mumtaz controled. “ Leaving, I say. I'm going home. Mumtaz laughs. Home? she says. And how would you get there? I don't know. Do you know the way home? she says. Do you have money for the train? Do you speak the language here? Do you even have any idea where you are?" This conversation with Lakshmi and Mumtaz shows Lakshmi that she really has no place to go and is never going to see her old life again. She had no money, no means of transportation and no stragegy of getting out of the pit called Happiness House. She came to a realization that even if she was able to