[UNK] By Patricia Mccormick Analysis

In “En Route” by Abigail Zuger, Zuger compares two doctors one is Dr. Data and the other is Dr. Confidence. She describes them as people who follow the rules to strictly instead of showing a little more compassion for patients. Zuger describes Dr. Data as a “fact man, who is evidence based all the way” pg. (825) and she describes Dr. Confidence as a “Standing joke” Pg. (826) she also says “He seems to know no actual medicine at all” Pg. (826). Zuger says that neither Dr. Data nor Dr. Confidence will last a moment in her world because she treats her patients like people and not just as a simple patient. She actually connects with her patients, not like Dr. Data and Dr. Confidence who would basically spit their patients out of their consultation

Have you ever been in a situation where you feel uncomfortable, like your being controlled? Well, Rachel knows exactly how that feels. In Eleven, by Sandra Cisneros, which is a short story. Rachel battles all of that stuff and more. The theme for Eleven is, It can be hard to stand up for yourself.

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

First, only Ama, Lakshmi's mother, values her. The men in the story do not. She has a stepfather who is a lazy gambler and Amas second husband, Gita Lakshmi's best friend, and Lakshmi's pet goat. Lakshmi’s mother loves her daughter, but Lakshmi’s stepfather doesn’t like her, but he acts like he does. Lakshmi’s stepfather wanted to sell her for about 1,000 rupees so he thinks she is worth something. Lakshmi wants to get more money for the family and better supplies. Lakshmi’s stepfather tells Ama that “Lakshmi wants to work in the city”.

After 5 days she has grown scared of Mumtaz but has been resistance by not showing that she felt the pain, by not crying. On this day Shahanna, one of the other girls, comes in with tea attempting to get Lakshmi to give in and become one of them, to become a sex slave. As they are talking Shahanna tells her, ¨Here at least we have a bed and food and clothes.¨ (pg. 115) This shows me that Shahanna has already been broken by the system and that she is not resistant. She shows that in her mind that it is better to perform this shameful act, in Lakshmis mind, than to be homeless and poor on the streets were she would have the right to chose.

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

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.

Deborah Brandt in her composition “Remembering Writing, Remembering Reading”, explores the relationship between reading and writing as they are seen as individuals. Through a miscellaneous amount of interviews, including one of her own, Brandt uses a variety of people's memories to emphasize that reading and writing have been argued to be secluded. Yet, what Brandt predominantly discusses in her article is the importance of reading and writing. Many of her interviews included parents discussing the importance of both topics, and their thought of both topics being equally taught by the parent and teacher. These interviews were evident because they drew interests from many point of views to overall point out, in many people’s beliefs that

Lakshmi is the main character in Sold, and she has many experiences while she is living at the

Even though the book Sold by Patricia McCormick is a fictional story, the misfortunes that happen to Lakshmi and the girls in sex trafficking take place all around the world. In Sold, the girls at the Happiness House are faced with a myriad of traumatizing experiences that happen in real life to sex victims all around the world. To start off, many traffickers often use verbal and physical violence towards girls to intimidate them into following orders, similar to what Lakshmi and the other girls go through everyday by the owner, Mumtaz, when they disobey the orders given to them while living in the Happiness House. Furthermore, to enter the sex trafficking world, the girls are taken from their poor families who are promised great fortune

Memories are a powerful force within people’s lives. They encourage, explain and expose the inner depths of an individual and the reason for who they are. Whether remembrances from past occurrences as children or teens or life altering decisions made regarding career and family, memories continue to have an influence on everyday life. They drive a person forward in current judgments and effects relationships with those surrounding. However, as time progresses memories alter. Either details are forgotten or translated differently than their original happening; memories are subjected to distortion. Consequently, the revision in which people remember recollections of their life’s history can influence the interpretation and their retellings. The correspondence between time and memories is often overlooked as parallel, but the interlocking connection contributes sustainably to everyday life, choices, behaviors and personal relationships. In her photographic series, Mutters Schuhe, Nina Röder explores how “subjectivity and perspective affect the retelling of memories” (Garrett, 2014) through the suggestion that emotions and time can trigger a rebirth of perspectives concerning memories.

Diction is the word choice used by an author. Syntax is the way words are used to create a sentence. Imagery is using descriptive words to create a sensory experience for the reader. In the story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, diction, syntax, and imagery are used to give the speaker a youthful voice.

We can say that the dividend changes have been so much less volatile than earnings changes because: 1) management believed that shareholders prefer a steady progression in dividends 2) managers are reluctant to make dividend changes that might have to be reversed. They are particularly worried about a dividend increase, which would affect the stock price. Broadhead needed money to invest in FPL; therefore, he needed to make the stock price increase in order to

Mahasweta Devi’s short story, “Giribala,” is about the life of Giribala, a girl of Talsana village located in India. Born into a caste in a time when it was still customary to pay a bride-price, Giri is sold to Aulchand by her father. From this point on, we see a series of unfortunate, tragic events that take place in Giri’s life as a result of the circumstances surrounding Giri’s life. There are many issues in Giri’s life in India that Devi highlights to readers. First, the economic instability of the village leads to an extremely poor quality of life for the lower, working classes. Next, the cruel role of women determined by men in society is to either satisfy the sexual desires of men or to reproduce offspring who can work or be sold off to marriages. There are also other social norms and beliefs which discriminate against women that will be discussed.

Money can earn status and social responsibility. Despite her upper caste birth, Jashoda in ‘Breast-Giver’ is not in a dominating position because her family is awfully poor. On the other hand the Haldars, who hold a lower position in social hierarchy, can dictate terms because of their affluence. It is her stark poverty that compels Jashoda to earn her living by breast –feeding the children of the Haldar family where the daughters-in-law can afford to refuse to suckle their own children for keeping their figures attractive. Gayathri Chakravorthy Spivak in her essay ‘A Literary Representation of the Subaltern: Mahaswetha Devi’s Stanadayini ‘Breast-Giver’ has justly commented on the role of economy in defining subalternity. She argues that even the Brahminical identity of Jashoda is brutalized in this story: This --- identity is a cover for the brutalizing of the Brahmin when the elite in caste is subaltern in class. In the case of class-manipulation, Poverty(is) the fault of the individuals, not an intrinsic part of a class society, in the case of caste manipulation, the implicit assumption is the reverse, the Brahmin is systematically excellent , not necessarily so as an individual ( Spivak,