Character Analysis: Sold By Patricia Mccormick

What is Lakshmi’s life like in her Nepal mountain home? Discuss the motives behind Lakshmi’s decision to go into the city. Support your response with evidence from the text.

Lakshmi decides to become a maid to help her family with financial issues. Baba sells lakshimi to this in town clerk for 10,000 rupees. 10,000 rupees is equivalent to $153.70. Lakshmi sets out on foot with this so called “aunt” to the city to work. Lakshmi then gets transferred to this guy who tells her to call him her husband. Lakshmi travels across the border from Nepal into India. Eventually Lakshmi reaches the happiness house where she is told that she will work there. Lakshmi is confused when she sees the other girls there. She is confused because she is wondering why do they have on all this fancy clothes to work. Eventually Lakshmi realizes what is going on. Lakshmi meets this woman named Mumtaz. Mumtaz is the owner of this happiness house. Mumtaz purchases Lakshmi for 10,000 rupees. She then cuts Lakshmi's hair short incase she ever decides to run away. Lakshmi then gets locked into a room. She is locked into a room in case she tries to run away and because she is special. She is special because she is still a virgin. People pay extra for a virgin. Mumtaz brings a old man into Lakshmi's room. Lakshmi is very frightened because she doesn't know what is

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Lakshmi leaves her family. This risks her safety being that she has no one that she really knows well protecting her. Though she thinks she is going to be a maid but ends up as a sexual prostitute in the city. She gave up her personal safety by trusting a strange lady from the city that she thought was trustworthy and was going to take her to the city as a maid..

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¨I will give you half and the rest when she has proved her worth,¨she says (59). In Sold written by Patricia McCormick A young girl named Lakshmi was sold into human trafficking. A young girl who lived upon a mountain from nepal was only dreaming of the luxuries of a tin roof and maybe a light bulb or as she calls it a little sun in the ceiling. What is the value of human life? Human life is worth more than any amount of money in the world.

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McCormick’s novel begins in Nepal. She tells us how this young girl grew up and how she had to leave everything behind to help out her family. Lakshmi however did not know that she would be sold into prostitution. She thought she was going to have a job working in her village.

In the realistic-fiction novel, Sold, written by Patricia McCormick, the perspective of the narrator affects the way the reader understands the story because each point of view gives the reader a different interpretation on the problems faced throughout the book. First person allows the reader to directly see the main character, Lakshmi’s. Also, if the point of view were the first person from another character in the book, the story would be entirely changed, as everyone’s take on life differs. It has this effect on the way the reader understands the story because we feel what she feels, see what she sees, and suffer what she suffers. Since the perspective of the book is in first person, the confusion that Lakshmi experiences as she's manipulated

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Then Lakshmi undertakes a long journey to India and arrives at Happiness House, with full of hopes. But she soon learns the horrible truth: she has been sold into prostitution and trapped there until she can pay off her family’s debt. Many of the girls in the Happiness House were the victims of sex trafficking, and Lakshmi was one of them whose innocence was tattered in the horrors of sexual life. The circumstances that brought Lakshmi to such a disgraced place was hers family’s weak financial condition. In addition, natural calamities like monsoon destroyed their livelihood, loans & her stepfather extravagant attitude towards gambling were also the circumstance due to which Lakshmi ends of being a prostitute. The author conveys that usually the need of money, power and greediness lead to