Commentary On The Book Sold

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it (James Bryce). If measured by the rule of the quote, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow has tremendous worth. Randy Pausch, a professor dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” at Carnegie Mellon in 2007. In the book, he reflects upon the lessons of his life experiences mentioned in the lecture. The lessons addressed ways to lead a fulfilled life. At first, his experiences seemed to be entertaining stories from his past, but as he progressed through each chapter, I began to realize the mentoring quality of the stories. From the lessons, I carried away invaluable advice. While it would be difficult to visit and elaborate upon every lesson, there were three that were most memorable to me: the importance of obstacles in our life, how honesty is a better character builder than false praise, and the uselessness of complaining.

I am Munoo Babu Nathuram’s servant” (Anand 34). He accepts his identity as a servant or a slave in the very beginning of his saga of miseries. In the story, Munoo receives inhuman and repelling treatment from his Indian masters, the foreign mill owners in Bombay and his compatriot coolies. Thus, Anand presents a vivid picture of human misery–poverty, exploitation, hunger and disease. Munoo’s experience as a child-servant is as disgusting as his other experiences. Indeed, the story of Munoo is a study in human suffering (Verma

To be a slave to others ideologies, is to give up your own sense of freedom and lie to your own self. When our own self interest is put behind others, it makes us feel lost and uncertain in our own life. We are not sure what to do with our lives. In life we are faced with many hard circumstances that are not easy to overcome, but if we can reach back to our old roots we can free ourselves from our patternistic lifestyles and pursue what we want to do. In the short story “Behind the Headlines” by Vidyut Aklujkar, we see life through the main character Lakshmi’s eyes. Her life has been taken over by her husband’s life and she is trapped living the same way for 12 years. Lakshmi’s life can be a parallel to a news story itself. When we first hear about breaking news, we don’t know much about the story since new information is coming out- In this short story, when we first start reading we aren’t given too much information. As the news keeps covering the story, we are given more background on the event and all the circumstances that led up to the event, and as the news reporters get to the end of the story, we are finally given a conclusion that either makes us happy or sad. In this short story case, you are left feeling happy that Lakshmi found her way out. When we are stuck in a rut and not able to take control of our own life, we become lost. We when can overcome our circumstances and get away from our daily conventions, we are able to find ourselves and become who we really

Chapter 19- One literary work four aspects of geography is the novel Sold. The novel is narrated by a young girl Lakshmi, living in Indian village, in poverty, while still enjoying the aspects of her childhood and innocence. To save her family from more suffering, she is unknowingly sold into prostitution. While traveling to Nepal, she

it does not extend benefits for compliance but imposes costs for noncompliance. more like a threat than a mutually advantageous bargain

Sometimes, how you pictured a new scenario isn’t at all how it turns out. In Sold Patricia McCormick uses strong tone from Lakshmi to show her negative change in perspective about life in the city compared to her home village.

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

The lack of knowledge in Sold as to where Lakshmi is going is astounding. Lakshmi comes from a small village in Nepal where knowledge of the outside world isn't really common. Lakshmi is made to believe that she is going to be a housemaid

The devastating story of the thirteen year-old girl, Lakshmi, endures all kinds of hardship when she was sold into sex trafficking in hopes to earn her family more money. Patricia McCormick shows her readers the horrors of the reality of sex trafficking, through the eyes of Lakshmi, a girl in her book in Sold. All of the victims make life-changing decisions hoping to help their families have a better life. Every one of them go through many individual circumstances that make each of them a different person to help them with their situation. In Sold, Patricia McCormick uses the sex slaves experiences to show how people become stronger as they overcome the challenges in their lives.

The plot in the short story “Hindus” demonstrates how a certain sequence of events can help people better understand themselves. Leela meets many different and unique people on her journey throughout

Poverty and oppression is a serious condition that is prevalent even in today’s modern society. Women and children are exposed to poverty and subjected to a life of injustice. One of the countries where such problems still occur is in India. Despite the country’s modernization, there lies an undercity where the disparity of wealth is transparent. These social problems are thoroughly described in movies and literature such as Slumdog Millionaire and Behind the Beautiful Forevers. In the book Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Catherine Boo, the author describes slum life for a set of individuals and the hardship that their social conditions confined them to. Another movie that gave insight to slum life in India is Slumdog Millionaire

The book that I read was John Huey’s and Sam Walton’s, “Sam Walton: Made in America” published in 1992. John Huey was the senior editor at Forbes magazine at the time. He is known for reporting on the business world and profiling many of the leading personalities. Sam Walton was the man who started it all for the national corporation, Wal-Mart. He was the founder and CEO. Sam’s main purpose of this book is to tell the “formula” of to how to be successful as a business owner.

Comparing the issue of sexual slavery to slavery makes the issue even more complicated as there are key differences to highlight. Slavery started off as a legal action and was fully acceptable throughout whole nations, then came the moral risers, the abolitionists, who focused on arguing that slavery should become illegal. They succeeded eventually and once it was illegal, the trade of slaves stopped. In the case of sexual slavery, nowhere in the world is rape and enforced sexual slavery actually a legal action. The problem with the legality issue, and several of the stories mentioned by the authors make this point very clear, is the unconcern and corruption of the authorities in fighting the issue. Moreover, the silence of the victim, who once goes public with the ordeal, is publicly humiliated and ashamed makes it even harder to combat and battle. Last but not least, the lack of schooling and education plus the lack of medical care for women often reflects most families’ ignorances of the economic potential of healthy, educated women. Given all the circumstances surrounding the issue and the context in which the problem is situated, the authors call upon the supporting of individuals they call in Half the Sky, “social entrepreneurs,” just like Mukhtar Mai, Usha Narayane and Sunitha

Sold” is a novel by Patricia McCormick published in the year 2006. The story is about Lakshmi the protagonist who is a thirteen year old girl living in a village in Nepal with her family. Being desperately poor and the fact that later the Himalayan monsoons destroy the family’s crops she must go take a job in the city says her stepfather. Told that she will work as a maid in the city she is taken to India but the harsh reality is that she is sold into prostitution. Lakshmi is trapped and faces the horrors of being in a brothel. It is a haunting story talking about sexual slavery and how a heinous act still plagues the world.

Before the Partition of India, in 1947, India was considered a country with a reasonably peaceful history. However, during and after the Partition, sexual violence, both towards men and women, escalated, resulting in the rape and abduction of over 80,000 women. Cracking India, by Bapsi Sidhwa, tells a story that highlights these violent acts by both Muslims and Hindus, through the eyes of a disabled young Parsi girl named Lenny, who witnesses first hand the violence of Partition when she mistakenly participates in the abduction of her ayah, Shanta. Throughout Cracking India, Lenny observes as the religions involved in Partition become increasingly violent towards both men and women, within their own religions and against others.