Exam Essay
Putting a price tag on another human being is inhumane and also absurd to think about. Even though it goes against the basic rights we have as humans, it happens everyday in different cultures and even in America. Selling others into the sex trafficking business and sexual assault is an awful injustice and it is never addressed in the world. Patricia McCormick uses her novel, Sold, to educate readers about some of the most immoral social injustices in the world, using aphorisms and imagery, when sharing a heartbreaking story about a girl, Lakshmi, who is sold into sex trafficking.
Early in the book, the main character learns many lessons right away about what it is like a woman and minority in the Nepalese culture. To be a woman …show more content…
In India and Nepal, much of their culture is based off their religion. The problem stems from their culture and history which teaches socially unacceptable habits which include disrespecting women and not giving them basic human rights. Ama exemplifies this when she instructs Lakshmi, “Never look a man in the eye [...] If he turns to you in the night, you must give yourself to him, in the hopes that you will bear him a son” (McCormick 15). Ama is teaching Lakshmi these rules of everything she needs to know to be woman, and almost all of them are socially unjustified. Because Ama is teaching her daughter this, that means that she was taught this from her mother and she learned it from her mother and so on. The only way to get away from these habits is by changing the things these girls are being taught, and that can change by letting them attend …show more content…
Take a look at many of the world’s tragedies, such as American slavery or the Holocaust, the connecting resemblance was that the minority was taught or educated about what was going on. Nepal and India are looking at the same type of situation here, as far as women not getting equal education as men. Just like the slave trade or the Nazi regime in Germany, these men in India and Nepal are taking advantage over the minorities. Ama says, “You must stay in school, no matter what your stepfather says” (McCormick 1). This deliberately shows the man in the family trying to deprive Lakshmi of schooling and in the end she quits school to be “sold.” This shows irony because her mother is trying to provide her daughter an education, even though the education that Lakshmi is getting is next to nothing. Denying people of education is a social injustice in and of itself, but it is a subcategory of a bigger problem, then the world should be noticing
Putting a price tag on another human being is inhumane and also absurd to think about. Even though it goes against the basic rights we have as humans, it happens everyday in different cultures and even in America. Selling others into the sex trafficking business and sexual assault is an awful injustice and it is never addressed in the world. Patricia McCormick uses her novel, Sold, to educate readers about some of the most immoral social injustices in the world, using aphorisms and imagery, when sharing a heartbreaking story about a girl, Lakshmi, who is sold into sex trafficking.
Early in the book, the main character learns many lessons right away about what it is like a woman and minority in the Nepalese culture. To be a woman …show more content…
In India and Nepal, much of their culture is based off their religion. The problem stems from their culture and history which teaches socially unacceptable habits which include disrespecting women and not giving them basic human rights. Ama exemplifies this when she instructs Lakshmi, “Never look a man in the eye [...] If he turns to you in the night, you must give yourself to him, in the hopes that you will bear him a son” (McCormick 15). Ama is teaching Lakshmi these rules of everything she needs to know to be woman, and almost all of them are socially unjustified. Because Ama is teaching her daughter this, that means that she was taught this from her mother and she learned it from her mother and so on. The only way to get away from these habits is by changing the things these girls are being taught, and that can change by letting them attend …show more content…
Take a look at many of the world’s tragedies, such as American slavery or the Holocaust, the connecting resemblance was that the minority was taught or educated about what was going on. Nepal and India are looking at the same type of situation here, as far as women not getting equal education as men. Just like the slave trade or the Nazi regime in Germany, these men in India and Nepal are taking advantage over the minorities. Ama says, “You must stay in school, no matter what your stepfather says” (McCormick 1). This deliberately shows the man in the family trying to deprive Lakshmi of schooling and in the end she quits school to be “sold.” This shows irony because her mother is trying to provide her daughter an education, even though the education that Lakshmi is getting is next to nothing. Denying people of education is a social injustice in and of itself, but it is a subcategory of a bigger problem, then the world should be noticing