Summary Of Sold By Patricia Mccormick

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“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.

In the vignette, Hurt, the writer helps us understand exactly how Lakshmi feels.

Vignettes have good effects on the reader because it describes the setting of a scene, letting us form a picture in our mind, while also setting the mood in a vignette. And we also get to focus on that certain vignette. A conflict that changed Lakshmi, was vs. Harish. She sometimes found herself hating him for having schoolbooks and playmates and for being an ordinary boy. Lakshmi also hated him for letting herself be caught with one of his story books. At times, she also hated herself for hating him. This conflict changed her because Harish began teaching her english and and she learned new words and sentences. And as a result, that ended up freeing

her.
The theme of the book was maintaining and learning to trust others. When Lakshmi says “I put the card inside my waistcloth. And then he is gone.” should that the American trusted her. Just when you think that she might not have one bit of trust in him she says “ so i take this dangerous card and hide it under the mat on the floor.” Another example of trust was when the lakshmi mentioned, “ I know this voice. It is my American” it shows the trust and hope Lakshmi has on the american that was going to save her, and in the end it was the American that brought the police in hope of saving Lakshmi.
The purpose of McCormick in writing the book was to make people aware of what goes on in different countries of the world. There are many dangers in the world but one of the post important one to be aware of is prostitution. With writing this book it also lets people be aware that they could do something to help. I think that this book will help a lot of people who are going through a similar situation.
The thing that I learned about the book was how some parents sale their own kids just for money. What i’ve learned from the book was how young the girls are sold into prostitution, and how the police are sometimes accomplices to the people running the brothels. The other thing that surprised me was that men thought having intercourse with “pure” girls would cure all, or some of their diseases. The other thing I learned from the book was that when some girls try to go back to there families, their parents don't want to see them so they tell them to never come back home. The thing that shocked me was how they beat them when they try to escape from brothels.