I agree with the quote "A work of literature must provide more than factual accuracy or vivid physical reality... it must tell us more than we already know.". I feel like when reading a book it shouldn't be all about facts or just story lines. A book should should mix things up so it makes us want to read them and not focus on one thing. The Book Sold tells us facts about sex trafficking but it also provides us with something else, how a life of young girl is sold into sex trafficking by her step father so she can help the family with money. The second book "Eleanor and Park" talks about vivid details and also has a story line about relationships.
“Sold” is a novel by Patricia McCormick. Lakshmi is a 13-year-old girl that experiences
The book I choose for the book talk is “Dead and gone” written by Norah McClintock, this book talks about a murder mystery of Tricey Howard. The main character of the story is Mike, an orphan whose parents got killed in a car crash. He lives with his foster father named John Riel, who was once a police officer. During a swim meet, Mike see Mr.Henderson is staring at a girl name Emily without stopping. Then he informs Emily about what happened in the community center. However, as return Emily blackmails Mike to investigate Mr. Henderson. During the investigation, Mike finds nothing suspicious, but realize Emily is the daughter of Tricey Howard. Tricey Howard was murdered years ago, but the police still haven’t find the real killer. At the meantime,
A book that has a clear understanding of what is “real” is often thought to be a quality book. Although what is thought to be “real” is different for everyone, for me it is how easily I am able to relate to the characters in the book. If I can sympathize and understand what they are going through on an emotional level and can put myself in their shoes, I am more apt to enjoy the story. Narrative style and structure play a very important role here; because it is through these that we get a sense of what type of realism is being portrayed. For example, in Sarah, Plain and Tall, the realism displayed is emotional realism.
Innocence ripped away and replaced by premature struggling through life is what outlines Sold by Patricia McCormick. This historical fiction novel follows the story of Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl living in Nepal. Desperately poor, Lakshmi can only enjoy simple pleasures, such as raising her speckled goat named Tali, and having her mother Ama brush and braid her hair. When the violent Himalayan rains tear away all that remains of their cucumber crops, Lakshmi’s maimed stepfather says she must take up a job, for he cannot get work. Lakshmi is introduced to the charming Bajai Sita who promises her a job as a maid in a wealthy area of India. Excited and full of hope to help her family, Lakshmi endures the long trek to India where her journey ends at the “Happiness House.” Soon she learns the frightening truth: she has been sold into prostitution. She is betrayed, broken, and yet still manages to come through her ordeal with her soul intact. Sold depicts a story meant to teach and inspire, making the novel a piece that is highly important for all to see and read.
The purpose of a biography is to enhance the reader’s knowledge about a particular person’s life, in this case, Florence Beatrice Price, and offer a sort of historical background focusing on significant events, accomplishments, and personal aspects of that particular individual’s life. Ideally, the writer molds complex biographical facts—birth and death, education, ambition, conflict, milieu, work, relationship, accident—into a book [or article] that has the independent vitality of any creative work but is, at the same time, "true to life." Barbara Garvey Jackson, author of the biography on Florence Price chosen for this class, has noted that the purpose of her article is “…to assess the cultural world in which she [Florence] grew up, her own life and professional career in Little Rock and Chicago, and the present states of study about her.” In my opinion, Jackson does an exceptional job in providing the type of information that she purposely set out to offer such inquisitive readers like myself.
If a non-fiction book was only filled with facts readers would quickly lose interest and not want to read it. Also, without personal opinions and anecdotes, the book would lack a purpose. Style is crucial to having a book that appeals to the reader’s attention span, and if there is no connection to the reader through the author’s personality, then this book is not successful due to the lack of a personal voice from the author.
Many books have been questioned and challenged. Even as far as to banning them. But what exactly is a banned book and why are they banned? A banned book is a book that has been censored by an authority, a government body, a library, or a even school system. A book that has been banned is actually removed from a library or school system. The actual contextual reasons as to banning them is use of explicit violence, gore, sexuality, explicit language, religion, or dark times in history. On the non-contextual side of the reason why they are banned books are usually because with the best intentions to protect people, frequently children, from difficult philosophies and information. Teachers, or even more common adults, often censor books from children if they feel that the books have maniacal or controversial ideas in them. In some scenarios, those who are censoring books think that a book might be appropriate for a certain, or several groups in society. A book that might be perfectly fine for a ninth grader might easily be horrendous or confusing to a fourth grader. Thus having them exposed and influenced to thinking a certain way and act upon what they have just read. Well at least that’s what people think is going to happen anyways. But honestly, reading books of any genre gives us knowledge, entertainment, and imagination so therefore no books or novels should be banned and is ultimately dependent on the reader’s choice.
... who were the least fortunate, literary realism was sure to have an impact on the reader. People were used to stories that were romanticized and that always had happy endings, so when groundbreaking authors began to write about the world as it really was and all the suffering that was happening at the time, it was extremely influential. Especially for events like the Civil and Women’s Rights movements, whose starting points were likely sparked by realist writers such as Kate Chopin and Paul Laurence Dunbar. If writers had continued sugarcoating the truth and keeping the public’s eyes closed when it comes to injustice, who knows if things would have ever gotten better? By enlightening the country about topics that were not necessarily pleasant but desperately needed attention, realist writers were able to spark changes that influenced not only the U.S., but the world.
I get my reading interest from my sister, when she was done with a book I would pick it up so that I can encounter those same experiences, and because I did so I realized every book is similar and different at the same time. Each author had a unique style, but each story would tell of another tale. For exam...
...tioned books, plus many, many more that have been banned or changed, should be brought back, as long as the parents of the children to be reading these items agree to allow it, so that they can get a full effect of how the reader was trying to portray his, or the actor’s emotions, in the book. There should also be an age in school that they start letting children read these things, because obviously it is not going to be appropriate for a fourth grader to start reading someone that is saying a curse word every other word, or one that focuses on negative things like racism, because that information could be detrimental to the overall learning capabilities of the kids. Finally, some of the literature that was banned years ago, are being reinstated into schools, because of people like me that have the same opinion that I do, and will stand up and fight for our rights.
“Sold” by Patricia McCormick is about a 13 year old young girl named Lakshmi that lived in Nepal. She lived with her mom, little sister and stepfather. Lakshmi’s stepfather gambles what very little money they have for their family to survive. Her stepfather said she now had to take a job in order to support her family, he introduced her to a well-looking stranger who tells her that she will be a maid in the city. Lakshmi gladly accepts only to later find out that she has been sold into prostitution. She was only 13 years old when her stepfather sold her to a brothel to help earn money. Mumtaz, an old woman, goes around ruling the brothel with cruelty. The old woman tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she pays off her family’s debt, but Mumtaz steals Lakshmi’s earning so that she can never leave. Then one day, as Lakshmi was getting ready to begin another day waiting for the American, she hears a banging on the door and a voice shouts, “Police!”. She and her friend, Anita, get scared and hide in a closet. Lakshmi recognizes the voice of the American and runs towards him, while her friend stays behind, and gives them her name and age.
Sold is a 263-pages realistic fiction written by Patricia McCormick. It was published by Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group, in 2008. This novel tells a story of a young girl from Nepal sold into prostitution in India.
The customary beliefs, social forms and everyday practices of a particular group of individuals can be defined as culture. These practices become a way of life and as a whole, shape the personality of the individuals. If the individual remains isolated, the uniform values appear commonplace. If every member of the group engages in the same behaviour, why would the behaviour be scrutinized? There are cultures that practice bigamy, pagan worship, cannibalism, or human trafficking, and they continue to this day. While they might be frowned upon by Western culture, the practices appears perfectly normal to other cultures. In Patricia McCormick’s novel, Sold, it is acceptable for families
Would you rather read fiction or nonfiction books? In some countries they are contemplating taking fiction books out of schools. The book I am reading is “ All American boys” by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiley. This book entails a story of a teenage, African American boy getting physically assaulted by a white police officer. All American boys is a fiction book; however it portrays many life lessons and real life events that often go unnoticed or many people are unaware of. Despite the school board’s recent segment regarding the lack of educational fuel that fiction provides, fiction should remain in the school’s curriculum. The statement is true due to the fact that fiction books teach valuable lessons on morality that are not always portrayed
Most if not all literature books are all fiction. Not saying that all nonfiction books ever written are lies, but to make a well written and clear book, authors need to have a storyline. It is very rare to find a nonfiction book will be one hundred percent accurate. Memoirs are the same thing; it is almost impossible to write a story without a storyline. Memoirists add these facts to make the message they
Books should be banned because Some books have Inappropriate language for children. Some books could be fine for an Adult but then to a child it could be inappropriate.Also many books include words or behavior that might be something a child shouldn’t be reading. Many books that have been banned include things like racism, negativity, and violence.Books should also be banned because some books encourage kid’s to talk back to adults.Which is not right because it is very disrespectful to talk back to Adults.Also I would not like to see my siblings reading an inappropriate book for