Lakshmi

each other from far distances, enjoying the lovely aroma from the pretzel shop in the mall, or even just meeting up with her friends to grab some burgers and milkshakes, but that is not the case for a Nepali girl named Lakshmi. In Patricia McCormick's book, Sold, a young girl, Lakshmi, who is thirteen years old lives with her mother, recently born brother, and step-father in a rural, poor community in Nepal. After not experiencing rain for months and then an extensive, unexpectant downpour of…

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…

The book that I read was called Sold by Patricia McCormick and was written in the first person. The book is about a 13-year-old girl named Lakshmi who lives in Nepal in a mountain area. She lives there with her step-father, mother, and baby brother. Being fed up with their family living in poor conditions her stepfather sends her to go work. Lakshmi thinks that she is going the city to become a maid but soon finds out that she was sold to become a prostitute against her will in a place called…

them. In the novel it is easy to feel empathy for most of the characters, because all of them have a reason of the actions that they are doing. Sold is a novel by Patricia McCormick, published in 2006. It tells the story of a girl from Nepal named Lakshmi, who is sold into sexual slavery in India. The novel is written in a series of short, vignette-style chapters, from the point of view of the main character. Leaving a lot of people feeling bad for the characters in the book the feeling of…

Many people are under the assumption that the fight for women’s rights is over. Readers are forced to confront the truth in Patricia McCormick’s book, Sold, wherein a young girl named Lakshmi is sold into the realm of sex slavery. The suffering and horrors faced by the girls in the brothels act as a rather unsavory eye opener to readers. In the brothel, women’s rights and equality exist solely as a dream. Basic human rights are not afforded to the women and girls. Poor treatment of the…

enduring the physical and mental tortures of being sold into sex slavery. While describing the negative effects of Lakshmi’s menstrual cycle, a mark of her blossoming womanhood, her mother Ama states that their precious growing plants will “rot” if Lakshmi sets sights on them. This exemplifies the harsh view placed on women in their culture, seeing the natural cycle of a woman’s maturity as destructive and life-killing in contrast to the growth and blossoming taking place. This mindset further…

Subsequently, after Lakshmi’s first encounter with a client, she reflects on how the reality of society differs from what she had thought as a child. In India, “ policemen are supposed to stop people from selling girls […] but [Mumtaz] gives [the officers] money each week, and [they] look the other way” (McCormick 159). In the Middle East, where women have little protection or rights, they are often seen as objects. As a consequence, the cruel acts performed against them are neither questioned,…

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Only Human I’m only human. A phrase that is used often to excuse the imperfect behaviors of people today. Being as how we are all human, none of us have the slightest clue as to what the true meaning of life is-- what goal we are attempting to reach. So why must we excuse ourselves when we act out of society’s norm? Why does being human come with such a negative connotation when used in such a manner? It’s a lesson learned at a very young age that we must treat others how we ourselves would…

your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.” Sarandon understood that empathy is fundamental pro making sense of current social issues. The book Sold written by Patrick McCormick follows the journey of a young girl named Lakshmi that was sold into prostitution. This novel has assisted in shining a light on the overwhelming intensity of human trafficking as it exists today. Intellectual empathy is an awareness of the need to imaginatively put oneself in the place of…