LAKSHMI’S CHARACTER SKETCH
SOLD- Patricia McCormick
In the novel, “SOLD” by Patricia McCormick, Lakshmi is the protagonist of the story. She is a fourteen-year-old teenager who lives with her lovely and beloved Ama, her extravagant and irresponsible stepfather and her half younger brother in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. She spends her days in the village doing household chores, gathering/fetching water and tending her goat, Tali and the small garden of cucumbers for which she is responsible. Her life is hard, because of the mercy of extreme weather from endless heat and destructive monsoon.
Lakshmi tops in her village school and she promised to marry a young cat-eye boy in her village. She always dreams for the better ways and imagines …show more content…
Then Lakshmi forms relationship with the tea boy. When the tea boy was fired, Lakshmi gets disturbed once again because she lost another friend, and she never even knew the tea-boy’s name. However, after dreadful days of horror and slavery, Lakshmi manages to escape from the Happiness house with the aid of an American. The American role represented as a life-saver for Lakshmi’s life. Lakshmi broke out and ran towards the light of freedom.
“Something inside me breaks open, and I run down the steps towards my American. And I said ‘My name is Lakshmi. I am from Nepal. I am fourteen years old.’ ”
By reading this story, I cried and cheered for Lakshmi for her will, strength and endure. I cannot imagine what she must have gone through. Lakshmi's traits uplift the impact of the sex trafficking awareness in our community's mind. I really like the way how Patricia describes Lakshmi's emotion and the condition of village life and the prostitution life. Lakshmi represents abundance of young girls who are forces in sexual slavery. Lakshmi's actions teach me how we can live in protection and safety of laws which has a vivid corner of the horror
SOLD- Patricia McCormick
In the novel, “SOLD” by Patricia McCormick, Lakshmi is the protagonist of the story. She is a fourteen-year-old teenager who lives with her lovely and beloved Ama, her extravagant and irresponsible stepfather and her half younger brother in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. She spends her days in the village doing household chores, gathering/fetching water and tending her goat, Tali and the small garden of cucumbers for which she is responsible. Her life is hard, because of the mercy of extreme weather from endless heat and destructive monsoon.
Lakshmi tops in her village school and she promised to marry a young cat-eye boy in her village. She always dreams for the better ways and imagines …show more content…
Then Lakshmi forms relationship with the tea boy. When the tea boy was fired, Lakshmi gets disturbed once again because she lost another friend, and she never even knew the tea-boy’s name. However, after dreadful days of horror and slavery, Lakshmi manages to escape from the Happiness house with the aid of an American. The American role represented as a life-saver for Lakshmi’s life. Lakshmi broke out and ran towards the light of freedom.
“Something inside me breaks open, and I run down the steps towards my American. And I said ‘My name is Lakshmi. I am from Nepal. I am fourteen years old.’ ”
By reading this story, I cried and cheered for Lakshmi for her will, strength and endure. I cannot imagine what she must have gone through. Lakshmi's traits uplift the impact of the sex trafficking awareness in our community's mind. I really like the way how Patricia describes Lakshmi's emotion and the condition of village life and the prostitution life. Lakshmi represents abundance of young girls who are forces in sexual slavery. Lakshmi's actions teach me how we can live in protection and safety of laws which has a vivid corner of the horror