Never Fall Down, Sold And Incident In The Life Of A Slave Girl

Patience and Perseverance: A Magical Effect

Desire is the key to motivation, but determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal will enable you to attain the success you desperately urge for. In the novels Never Fall Down, Sold, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, each and every individual has witnessed the words, as long as you do not stop, it does not matter how slowly you go. This is due to the fact that every single one of them has endured and preserved through it all: the unlively hardships, the unthinkable circumstances, and the agonizing suffering; but for different reasons, all of them know what the true meaning of distressing cruelty really is. Nothing has ever been achieved in a few tenuous minutes and

Mumtaz, the owner of the brothel, locked Lakshmi inside a room with no food or water. She was beaten daily with a strap until her body was too bruised to beat. She endured over five days of the constant hunger, thirst, and pain. Most of the girls Mumtaz receives from the traders would have given in to her demands, but not Lakshmi; Lakshmi perseveres. “What she does not realize is that I already know hunger. I know how your stomach gnaws on itself searching for something to fill it. I know how your insides keep moving, unwilling to believe they’re empty” (Sold 109). This shows an example of Lakshmi’s physical perseverance and her ability to break through her barriers with what has happened to her, and her ability to cope with the starvation and constant pain Mumtaz forces upon her. Lakshmi’s perseverance allowed her to survive at the hands of Mumtaz. She never gave up hope during her stay the brothel, despite the difficulty. She always believed she would get out of there, and she would be free. But, Lakshmi took a terrible risk towards the end of the story, she accepts possible aid from an american. She has been told they would shame her and leave her naked in the street. She did not care, she wanted to be free of the brothel. It was in that moment when Lakshmi made up her mind to do whatever it takes to escape. “I know something

For example, in the novel it states, “Long time I been on my own, but now really I’m alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart” (Never Fall Down 140). This shows that Arn has lost everything. He has nothing left within him and now is ready to do whatever it takes. By doing this he realizes that now he has nothing else to lose then he must do what is needed to survive. For instance, in the novel it said, “Bend low, bend low, then bend lower...I do like you say, I bend like the grass and now look, here I am” (Never Fall Down 20). This shows the readers that in order to survive you must do as you are told and in the end everything will be worth it. But when it all comes down to it all, you must become like the lion, the king of the jungle, whether it’s good or bad. Arn proves this claim because even though he feels guilty, nothing can stop him from achieving what he has longed for. “Why? Why I’m so bad? He don’t do anything to me. Why? Because every minute I have to think about surviving. Every minute” (Never Fall Down 196). Going through all of this will allow life to eventually thrive. “From eleven-year-old kid till now, not one tear. So many year, I think I kill off all the tear inside me. But after this long,