Lakshmi

adapt throughout the book. Night is about a young jewish boy named Elie that gets taken from his home along with his family and put in a concentration camp by the nazis,this book was written by Elie Wiesel himself.Sold is about a young girl named Lakshmi, who gets taken from her home in the mountains and brought to the city to work in prostitution.The author of Sold is Patricia McCormick.By examining the novels Night and Sold we can see the ability to adapt is the key to survival,which is…

and Sold by using Lakshmi and Elie in different lifestyles. By examining the novels Night and Sold we can see that evil takes the innocence out of children which is important because without evil, innocence exists in human nature to those who have not matured. In Sold, Lakshmi is not innocent due to the evil presented towards her. In the Happiness House, Mumatz symbolizes the evil because of her strict orders of what their work is to pay off the never-ending debt. When Lakshmi is in the…

Evil can be found anywhere in the world, and if people do not notice it, their lives can be negatively impacted by it. The novels Sold by Patricia McCormick and Night by Elie Wisel, have characters that face evil situations that make them stronger as a person. By examining the novels Night and Sold, we can see that the characters were surrounded by evil that was hard to s could overcome, which is important because evil is everywhere and some people recognize it and overcome it, but others don’t…

their standpoint on the world and the outcome being impractical goals. Lakshmi got ill and Mumtaz took care of Lakshmi, but she took it as a sign of affection as appose to Mumtaz trying to get her back to work. "I love her like a mother, for giving me the medicine that will stop the fever and the sweating and the chills and the shaking. I love her for not throwing me out on the street, for caring for me." (Page 190, McCormick) Lakshmi still considered as a loving figure even though she is the…

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…

much money. Her stepfather told her mother that Lakshmi would have to work in the city as a maid. “There will be one less mouth to feed here, and I will send my wages home.”...”If I go you will have enough money for the rice and curds, milk and sugar. Enough for a coat for the baby, a sweater for you.” (Page 49,). Lakshmi is being optimistic in this situation, but she is being so optimistic that she is unaware of the danger that lurks ahead of her. Lakshmi thinks she will be cleaning like a…

a girl named Lakshmi who lives in a small village in Nepal. Her family is very poor and is struggling to make money because her stepfather gambles away a lot of their money. One day the monsoons come and was away all their crops, and now they have no source of income and have no way to get it all back. Lakshmi’s stepfather says that she must go into the city and work as a maid, however, she will be actually working as a prostitute in India, and Lakshmi’s stepfather lied to get Lakshmi and her…

which can interfere with their relationship. Individuals must overcome these complications or be prepared to face the negative outcomes. In Sinclair Ross’ “The Lamp at Noon” and in Vidyut Aklujkar “Behind the Headline” the protagonists Ellen and Lakshmi struggle in their search for fulfillment in their lives due to lack of communication between the two couples and their gender roles. This ultimately leads to undesirable consequences for their relationships. Having a sense communication is…

There are two main characters in these novels Elie and Lakshmi and they both survive in different situations. By examining novels Night and Sold we can see that perseverance is the key to survival, which is more important because often times people who don’t have perseverance don’t know how to keep going even in the hardest of times. In the novel Sold a character named Lakshmi lives through what is called the “Happiness House” and when Lakshmi arrives at the Happiness House, in reality a…

The documentary “SOLD” really opened my eyes to the degree of poverty that a family can go through. This particular story took place in Nepal. In the village that Lakshmi and her family lived in, villagers were so poor that the basic need of shelter was difficult to attain for some families. In the exposition of the film, Lakshmi was flying a kite. Immediately, I was given an idea not only of her age, but of her financial standard. I immediately compared her activities to the pastimes of those…