This is a modern day "horror" story about young girls who are sold into prostitution. We like to think that slavery is something from the past, but it still occurs today. Lakshmi is only 13 when she is sold in Nepal. This is how she survivies her nightmare.
Wow, this book was amazing. Depressing. Enlightening. Heart-wrenching. Inspiring. This is a great book. It was difficult for me to read, being a mother of two girls.
There are horrific things that happen to girls and women all over the world. Thank goodness there are also men of conscience.
We American girls sometimes forget how great we have it--until we are reminded by a story like this. We are very lucky to live in the best country in the world for women. Girls, take advantage of all of your advantages.
Julie S. Scheller Hour 4 At Mrs. Pogue I agree with your comment this is a modern day horror. These poor girls are sometimes even younger then thirteen when they’re sold into prostitution. We all like to think that slavery is gone but no one wants to think about sex slavery. It’s a growing problem and its very sad. These poor girls are forced into that. Books like these honor their stories as well as make us aware of the prostitution brothels.
Maryssa M. Wilkens 6th I agree with Julie S. when she says that this is a big problem that nobody really says anything about because, people are afraid to face the fact that prostitution is actually happening to children and at very young ages.
Julie S. Scheller Hour 4 At Mrs. Angie Gunnel I agree with parts of your comments. I agree that American girls don’t realize how lucky we have it. And I do agree that there are some good men out there but the men who go to brothels and pay to have sex with underage girls are horrific human beings. Even the American man in the book who held Lakshimi after sex was still a terrible man he willingly bought a girl he knew was underage even though he held her and thanked her he’s still at fault. It’s men like them who give power to these brothels. At least there are people out there who are aware of the horrors of the brothels and will try to stop this injustice.
Johnny H. Johnson 3 Julie S., I agree with your first comment saying that this story is a modern day horror. These things happen all the time in other countries and even in America too. Nothing is ever perfect no matter where you are and this happens all around the world
Kayleigh M. Wilkins 6 I totally agree, this is a teenage girl's worst nightmare. Nobody should be stuck in that kind of situation. Especially if you aren't making anything good out of it. She was tortured and abused into saying yes just so she can get tricked in the end. This is something that is still being done in the world today and it is horrifying, and illegal. Could you imagine selling off your own body?
Maryssa M. Wilkens 6th Sold is a really good book so far, but i feel the you have to be mature and very structure including the fact that all the details and or the way she describes her story can be intense.
Zoe.S Wilkins This book is different from anything that i have ever read. The book started off slow and boring but now its getting more into the story. its telling us alot about things that have happened in different countries & how they treated girls. That girls in america are treated way better then girls in other countries.
Kayleigh M. Wilkens 6 I agree, I never thought that I would never read something like this and it is totally unexpecting. It is terrible how women get treated in other countries. And for what? Money!!! The poor girls never see a dime. They get abused and tortured only to think they will be free again.
Carlson M. Wilkens 6th I agree with Johnny H. that there is no where in the world that is perfect, and unfortunately some have it worse then others like the people in this book. The book did start out slow however it has started to get better and more interesting.
Carlson M. Wilkens 6 This book is very intresting on the way its wrote and how people live and there different ways of life. Lakshmis step father sold her into sex slavery. When she was accidently sold into sex slavery she thought she was going to be a maid in the city. But that never happened I would feel super bad if I was the one to sell her! Anyways i think the more I read the better the book gets so i cant wait to see what happens later in the book.
Kayleigh M. Wilkens 6 I agree, it is a fantastic book and every part leaves you wanting more. That is exactly the kind of book that you wanna read. You really do connect with the characters and will get emotional to their situations. She didn't have a choice either which makes it worse. I wish there was a second book.
Taylor Jade Scheller 2 I agree with Carson, Lakshmi's step-fathers actions were horrid and unnecessary. if he would have thought about what was better for the family rater than just himself this wouldnt have happened to this poor innocent little girl. She was just thirteen fantasizing about growing up with her ama and raising crops to help her mom, feeding the baby, and finally marrying the boy she has watched for years, all to have that coming crashing down because a selfish man sold her to a city woman to get repeatedly raped.
Maryssa M. Wilkens 6th I recommend this book to students who are mature and can handle very descriptive language, or the book will just seem funny and won't make any since. This book explains in very good detail and is very interesting. Once you pick this book up you wont be able to put it down, because it has that effect on you, although this book may be hard to read due to the content. Sold also makes you feel as if you were in the shoes of the characters and helps you visualize the book better. I liked this book because it kind of gives me a reality check on my life and helps me understand that my life is not as hard as it seems, because compared to some of the characters situations my problems are nothing. Sold is an amazing book and I recommend that everyone at least tries to read it.
Kayleigh M. Wilkens 6 I think that this book is worth reading. It is "unputdownable" you can't help but continue reading. It is the kind of book that makes you think about what would happen if you were put in that situation. It is mysterious and has a dash of horror. Lakshmi was sold into sex slavery which is a modern day horror. She goes through so much that almost everybody can relate to. It makes you want more but sadly there is not a second book. Yes, the ending is....I can't tell you. You have to read it for yourself. It is a very easy book to read and is one of the greatest books I have read.
Maryssa M. Wilkens 6th I agree with Kayleigh M. this book is definitely worth reading and putting yourself in her shoes will make the story more understandable.I also wish there was a second book and if there was I would read it.
Abby W, I totally agree with you, I would be absolutely scared, and on top of being sold, she was sold with no warning, meaning she was not prepared to go through all of those things. I would probably take risks is running away. You have no idea what the thought process of someone being put into this situation until it actually happens.
Abby w Scheller 7th Also i would like to say , It didnt seem like she even cared about this whole situation . And She thought this was okay and cool . I think she doesnt understand this at all
Gato Genial So everyone is obviously aware of how horrible and sad being sold into prostitution is but I haven't really seen anyone talk how the nauseating fact that everyone around that area is okay with it. Like these older men /know/ these kids are /kids/ that lady even told her to tell everyone she was 12. EVERYONE (in the book) THINKS IT'S OKAY AND ACCEPTABLE AND NORMAL AND THAT'S NOT OKAY
The setting in sold is very important. It shows the change from the mountains to the city and how life changes. I don't know how I would handle these changes, mainly the one about the prostitution. I don't know if I would ever be able too handle that.
Liya B, Scheller, Hour 1 I feel the exact same way, I don't know how I could ever live like Lakshmi did. Especially when she found out the money wasn't actually going to her family
Lakshmi lives in a village with her mom, stepdad, and little brother. Kids usually don't survive because of the terrible living conditions. Her family needed money, so Lakshmi's stepdad got her a job as a maid in the city. While she is being sold the reader realizes that she is being sold into prostitution. As Lakshmi finally figures of that it doesn't feel right she starts to change. They live in a house with many rooms and many girls. Lakshmi was usually talkative and asked many questions now she can barely even talk due to starvation. The house is negatively affecting her.
the setting directly affects Lakshmi because she grows up in poverty, with a neglectful stepfather who sells her into sex slavery so he can gamble and buy himself nice things... she is willing to go work as a maid for rich women i the city, but that is nit where she winds up. she is so trusting and goes with a woman she barely knows then, to a man she doesnt know just to be thrown to yet another strange woman. while she is with the second strange women she is put in a room and has a man force himself on her.
In the book Sold by Atricia McCormick it's about a young girl who grows up in poverty. She lives with her step father, mother, and younger brother, they live off of selling their vegetables in their garden which the main character, Lakshmi takes very good care of till the rain doesn't come for a few weeks and everything starts to die. Lakshmi had just became a women, and their view on women are to serve the men. She thinks she will soon marry a boy, Krishna that she watches play. She is very poor and lives in harsh conditions
kameron,sheller 1 Lakshmi is a young girl who lives in poverty.She has a mom a stepdad and a brother because of the terrible conditions where she lives the kids don't usually survive.She lives off of crops that her family makes and also the animals that they have.They are saving up for a roof made out of scrap metal instead of the one made out of mud that water drips through when it rains.Her stepdad got her a job in the city that she thinks is a cleaning job,but he really sold her into prostitution
Liya B, Scheller, Hour 1 One character's actions I strongly disagree with, is Mumtaz. In the novel, Mumtaz is the woman who illegally buys girls, and then forces them to sleep with men for money. She then keeps the money, and uses it however she pleases. This is a very sick and twisted thing to do, she's mentally and physically abusing these young girls. She charges them for medicine when they get sick, drugs them when they don't want to "work," provides poverty level living conditions, and doesn't protect them from any STD's they could get. Instead of running this place she calls the "Happiness House," she could make money by going out and getting a real, legal, job.
Its terrible that she forces these girls to do that. She is mentally draining them and they are never going to be the same girls again. It is even worst to know that some of these girls, including Lakshmi, are even younger then us. It truly shows that this can happen to anyone of any age.
Mumtaz is the leader of the house. She is the one who disciplines all the girls and gets the money. I disagree with her decisions because it is wrong of her to put these girls through so much. She cheats them out of their money as well. I think Mumtaz behaves like this because she is greedy. She doesn't care what the girls are going through. She forces them to have sex in order for HER to get money. It's not just morally wrong but it's also legally wrong. In the book a police officer came to the door and Mumtaz paid him off. Sex trafficking/prostitution are both illegal and should not be overlooked by authorities.
What are your guys' thoughts on how men are worshiped so highly in this novel? Personally, I think it is way too extreme. Men and women should have equal value in the household. It's unfair for men to be able to waste all of the money the women bring home.
Especially Lakshmi's step dad. He takes what Lakshmi and her mom earns and tries to get more but instead just gambles it away. He doesn't even take care of the family. He also obviously doesnt care about Lakshmi as he showed by selling her into prostitution.
Emma Jones, Scheller, 2nd hour Mumtaz is the house mother you could say,but not like a mother at all. She is just in charge of all of the girls and makes sure they are doing what she needs of them to make money.She makes all of the girls that live there work as sex slaves. She tells the girls if they try and escape she will send people to find them and kill them, if they are not meeting her needs she will kick them out on the street with nothing and no way to get home. No child or teenager should be forced to be a sex slave to pay your dues to get back home..there was a man who came and asked Lakshmi if she wanted to leave and that he could take her to America, that's her way out and she should have taken it.
it is crazy that mumtaz thinks that all of this is ok and its a good way to make money.she i think she should also be extremely punished for her actions.
kameron williams, Hour 2 One character's actions I disagree with, is Mumtaz. In the novel, Mumtaz is the woman who illegally buys girls, and then forces them to have sex with with men for money. She then keeps the money, and uses it however she wants. This is a very terrible and unforgivable thing to do, she's mentally and physically abusing these young girls. She uses the girls have saved up for medicine when they get sick, give them drug when they don't want to "work," provides poverty living conditions, and doesn't protect them from any STD's they could get from men with unprotected sex.The woman is sick and she should go to prison for the rest of her life.
Taylor Jade Scheller 2 i agree with Kameron, mumtaz is a seroiusly demented woman who would beat KIDS for asking to use a condom when having sex with filthy street men from an unknown town. these girls were so innocent and healthy but, now they are getting sick, being beaten, and being thrown out on the street.
Liya Buchanan, Scheller 1 I totally agree. These girls were very innocent and had no idea what they were getting themselves into. Lakshmi´s stepdad was supposed to be a trustworthy man who protected her, but instead all he did was cause her pain.
Taylor Jade Scheller 2 I think Lakshmi's step fathers choices are horrible and crude. He gambles away what little money his family has, and what little profit he does make he uses it to buy himself nice things. he uses the money from the motorcycle to buy himself a new hat and clothes when all lakshmi and her sister wanted was a new dress and food for the baby. he is a thoughtless, and careless monster.
Sarah McGrael Scheller 2 I believe that Lakshmi's step father is a horrible person in general. Not only does he sell Lakshmi into prostitution, we can infer that all he is going to do with the money is gamble it away. I believe he is acting this way because he is ungrateful, lazy and greedy. If he was grateful he would try to save the money and improve his living situation. If he wasn't lazy he would have tried to find work, despite his missing hand. At the very least he could have helped his wife with the household chores. If he wasn't greedy he wouldn't be spending every night at the gambling den, losing all of the money that his family has for a chance at some more.
So true! Instead of trying to find a job and help out his family, he forces Lakshmi and her mother to make money, just so he can waste it. He is a very selfish and greedy character. Lakshmi was trying so hard to look at the bright side of things the whole time, which is a very strong thing to do. She is not ever going to fully get over this though. Her stepfather has caused her a lifetime of pain.
Liya Buchanan, Scheller 1 I think the most important conflict in this novel is morals. Of course sex trafficking is the ultimate problem, but one who would do something like this to a child has no morals. In this novel, people do not really care about the well-being of women or girls. Females are enslaved and used to benefit men. This is very disgusting, and not fair at all. Females should be treated with way more respect.
Emma Jones, Scheller, 2nd I completely agree with you. Women should not be used to benefit men and the fact that others knew about it and just let it happen is horrific! Men nor women should have that kind of power over anyone, especially children who haven't known anything but that
the most important conflict in this novel is sex trafficking,especially to young girls like Lakshmi.mumtaz is the crazy sex trafficker in the story and she is very selfish.she cheats girls of their earnings and makes them do what they would never want to do.
Emma Jones, Scheller, 2nd Mumtaz is a horrible person and the fact that she could put these girls through this horrible experience is so crazy. No human being should be able to sit there and know that they are putting a child through something that's ruined their childhood. She would even throw the girls out on the street if they got a disease from one of the men that she had forced them to be with, she threw them out because of what she had done. It is so wrong and horrible
Emma Jones, Scheller, 2nd The most important conflict in the book to me,is when Lakshmi had started to become a woman so her step father sold her for money. If he would not have done that then she wouldn't have had to be put through that horrible experience no woman or child in this situation should ever have to deal with. The fact that it was women in charge of this to put their own kind through that type of thing is even worse. Men may not have respected women but women should respect each other and stand up for what is not right.
kameron williams scheller 2nd it is so selfish that lakshmis step father sold her for money.she was put through the wost experiences if her life and she should never have to go through those things.
This is a modern day "horror" story about young girls who are sold into prostitution. We like to think that slavery is something from the past, but it still occurs today. Lakshmi is only 13 when she is sold in Nepal. This is how she survivies her nightmare.
ReplyDeleteWow, this book was amazing. Depressing. Enlightening. Heart-wrenching. Inspiring. This is a great book. It was difficult for me to read, being a mother of two girls.
ReplyDeleteThere are horrific things that happen to girls and women all over the world. Thank goodness there are also men of conscience.
We American girls sometimes forget how great we have it--until we are reminded by a story like this. We are very lucky to live in the best country in the world for women. Girls, take advantage of all of your advantages.
Julie S.
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At Mrs. Pogue I agree with your comment this is a modern day horror. These poor girls are sometimes even younger then thirteen when they’re sold into prostitution. We all like to think that slavery is gone but no one wants to think about sex slavery. It’s a growing problem and its very sad. These poor girls are forced into that. Books like these honor their stories as well as make us aware of the prostitution brothels.
Maryssa M.
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I agree with Julie S. when she says that this is a big problem that nobody really says anything about because, people are afraid to face the fact that prostitution is actually happening to children and at very young ages.
Julie S.
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At Mrs. Angie Gunnel I agree with parts of your comments. I agree that American girls don’t realize how lucky we have it. And I do agree that there are some good men out there but the men who go to brothels and pay to have sex with underage girls are horrific human beings. Even the American man in the book who held Lakshimi after sex was still a terrible man he willingly bought a girl he knew was underage even though he held her and thanked her he’s still at fault. It’s men like them who give power to these brothels. At least there are people out there who are aware of the horrors of the brothels and will try to stop this injustice.
Marvin (#YT)
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I am very excited to read "SOLD", this book won the The National Book Award Finest award.
Johnny H.
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Julie S., I agree with your first comment saying that this story is a modern day horror. These things happen all the time in other countries and even in America too. Nothing is ever perfect no matter where you are and this happens all around the world
Kayleigh M.
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I totally agree, this is a teenage girl's worst nightmare. Nobody should be stuck in that kind of situation. Especially if you aren't making anything good out of it. She was tortured and abused into saying yes just so she can get tricked in the end. This is something that is still being done in the world today and it is horrifying, and illegal. Could you imagine selling off your own body?
Maryssa M.
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Sold is a really good book so far, but i feel the you have to be mature and very structure including the fact that all the details and or the way she describes her story can be intense.
Zoe.S
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This book is different from anything that i have ever read. The book started off slow and boring but now its getting more into the story. its telling us alot about things that have happened in different countries & how they treated girls. That girls in america are treated way better then girls in other countries.
Kayleigh M.
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I agree, I never thought that I would never read something like this and it is totally unexpecting. It is terrible how women get treated in other countries. And for what? Money!!! The poor girls never see a dime. They get abused and tortured only to think they will be free again.
Carlson M.
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I agree with Johnny H. that there is no where in the world that is perfect, and unfortunately some have it worse then others like the people in this book. The book did start out slow however it has started to get better and more interesting.
Carlson M.
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This book is very intresting on the way its wrote and how people live and there different ways of life. Lakshmis step father sold her into sex slavery. When she was accidently sold into sex slavery she thought she was going to be a maid in the city. But that never happened I would feel super bad if I was the one to sell her! Anyways i think the more I read the better the book gets so i cant wait to see what happens later in the book.
Kayleigh M.
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I agree, it is a fantastic book and every part leaves you wanting more. That is exactly the kind of book that you wanna read. You really do connect with the characters and will get emotional to their situations. She didn't have a choice either which makes it worse. I wish there was a second book.
Taylor Jade
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I agree with Carson, Lakshmi's step-fathers actions were horrid and unnecessary. if he would have thought about what was better for the family rater than just himself this wouldnt have happened to this poor innocent little girl. She was just thirteen fantasizing about growing up with her ama and raising crops to help her mom, feeding the baby, and finally marrying the boy she has watched for years, all to have that coming crashing down because a selfish man sold her to a city woman to get repeatedly raped.
Maryssa M.
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I recommend this book to students who are mature and can handle very descriptive language, or the book will just seem funny and won't make any since. This book explains in very good detail and is very interesting. Once you pick this book up you wont be able to put it down, because it has that effect on you, although this book may be hard to read due to the content. Sold also makes you feel as if you were in the shoes of the characters and helps you visualize the book better. I liked this book because it kind of gives me a reality check on my life and helps me understand that my life is not as hard as it seems, because compared to some of the characters situations my problems are nothing. Sold is an amazing book and I recommend that everyone at least tries to read it.
Kayleigh M.
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I think that this book is worth reading. It is "unputdownable" you can't help but continue reading. It is the kind of book that makes you think about what would happen if you were put in that situation. It is mysterious and has a dash of horror. Lakshmi was sold into sex slavery which is a modern day horror. She goes through so much that almost everybody can relate to. It makes you want more but sadly there is not a second book. Yes, the ending is....I can't tell you. You have to read it for yourself. It is a very easy book to read and is one of the greatest books I have read.
Maryssa M.
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I agree with Kayleigh M. this book is definitely worth reading and putting yourself in her shoes will make the story more understandable.I also wish there was a second book and if there was I would read it.
Jayla C.
ReplyDeleteAbby W, I totally agree with you, I would be absolutely scared, and on top of being sold, she was sold with no warning, meaning she was not prepared to go through all of those things. I would probably take risks is running away. You have no idea what the thought process of someone being put into this situation until it actually happens.
Abby w
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Also i would like to say , It didnt seem like she even cared about this whole situation . And She thought this was okay and cool . I think she doesnt understand this at all
Gato Genial
ReplyDeleteSo everyone is obviously aware of how horrible and sad being sold into prostitution is but I haven't really seen anyone talk how the nauseating fact that everyone around that area is okay with it. Like these older men /know/ these kids are /kids/ that lady even told her to tell everyone she was 12. EVERYONE (in the book) THINKS IT'S OKAY AND ACCEPTABLE AND NORMAL AND THAT'S NOT OKAY
Sarah McGrael Mrs. Scheller 1st
ReplyDeleteThe setting in sold is very important. It shows the change from the mountains to the city and how life changes. I don't know how I would handle these changes, mainly the one about the prostitution. I don't know if I would ever be able too handle that.
Liya B, Scheller, Hour 1
DeleteI feel the exact same way, I don't know how I could ever live like Lakshmi did. Especially when she found out the money wasn't actually going to her family
Kasey,Sheller 1
ReplyDeleteLakshmi lives in a village with her mom, stepdad, and little brother. Kids usually don't survive because of the terrible living conditions. Her family needed money, so Lakshmi's stepdad got her a job as a maid in the city. While she is being sold the reader realizes that she is being sold into prostitution. As Lakshmi finally figures of that it doesn't feel right she starts to change. They live in a house with many rooms and many girls. Lakshmi was usually talkative and asked many questions now she can barely even talk due to starvation. The house is negatively affecting her.
T Stief, Scheller, 2nd
ReplyDeletethe setting directly affects Lakshmi because she grows up in poverty, with a neglectful stepfather who sells her into sex slavery so he can gamble and buy himself nice things... she is willing to go work as a maid for rich women i the city, but that is nit where she winds up. she is so trusting and goes with a woman she barely knows then, to a man she doesnt know just to be thrown to yet another strange woman. while she is with the second strange women she is put in a room and has a man force himself on her.
Emma Jones, Mrs. Scheller 2nd hour
ReplyDeleteIn the book Sold by Atricia McCormick it's about a young girl who grows up in poverty. She lives with her step father, mother, and younger brother, they live off of selling their vegetables in their garden which the main character, Lakshmi takes very good care of till the rain doesn't come for a few weeks and everything starts to die. Lakshmi had just became a women, and their view on women are to serve the men. She thinks she will soon marry a boy, Krishna that she watches play. She is very poor and lives in harsh conditions
kameron,sheller 1
ReplyDeleteLakshmi is a young girl who lives in poverty.She has a mom a stepdad and a brother because of the terrible conditions where she lives the kids don't usually survive.She lives off of crops that her family makes and also the animals that they have.They are saving up for a roof made out of scrap metal instead of the one made out of mud that water drips through when it rains.Her stepdad got her a job in the city that she thinks is a cleaning job,but he really sold her into prostitution
Liya B, Scheller, Hour 1
ReplyDeleteOne character's actions I strongly disagree with, is Mumtaz. In the novel, Mumtaz is the woman who illegally buys girls, and then forces them to sleep with men for money. She then keeps the money, and uses it however she pleases. This is a very sick and twisted thing to do, she's mentally and physically abusing these young girls. She charges them for medicine when they get sick, drugs them when they don't want to "work," provides poverty level living conditions, and doesn't protect them from any STD's they could get. Instead of running this place she calls the "Happiness House," she could make money by going out and getting a real, legal, job.
Its terrible that she forces these girls to do that. She is mentally draining them and they are never going to be the same girls again. It is even worst to know that some of these girls, including Lakshmi, are even younger then us. It truly shows that this can happen to anyone of any age.
DeleteKasey Galkowski, Sheller 1
ReplyDeleteMumtaz is the leader of the house. She is the one who disciplines all the girls and gets the money. I disagree with her decisions because it is wrong of her to put these girls through so much. She cheats them out of their money as well. I think Mumtaz behaves like this because she is greedy. She doesn't care what the girls are going through. She forces them to have sex in order for HER to get money. It's not just morally wrong but it's also legally wrong. In the book a police officer came to the door and Mumtaz paid him off. Sex trafficking/prostitution are both illegal and should not be overlooked by authorities.
What are your guys' thoughts on how men are worshiped so highly in this novel? Personally, I think it is way too extreme. Men and women should have equal value in the household. It's unfair for men to be able to waste all of the money the women bring home.
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DeleteEspecially Lakshmi's step dad. He takes what Lakshmi and her mom earns and tries to get more but instead just gambles it away. He doesn't even take care of the family. He also obviously doesnt care about Lakshmi as he showed by selling her into prostitution.
DeleteEmma Jones, Scheller, 2nd hour
ReplyDeleteMumtaz is the house mother you could say,but not like a mother at all. She is just in charge of all of the girls and makes sure they are doing what she needs of them to make money.She makes all of the girls that live there work as sex slaves. She tells the girls if they try and escape she will send people to find them and kill them, if they are not meeting her needs she will kick them out on the street with nothing and no way to get home. No child or teenager should be forced to be a sex slave to pay your dues to get back home..there was a man who came and asked Lakshmi if she wanted to leave and that he could take her to America, that's her way out and she should have taken it.
it is crazy that mumtaz thinks that all of this is ok and its a good way to make money.she i think she should also be extremely punished for her actions.
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ReplyDeleteOne character's actions I disagree with, is Mumtaz. In the novel, Mumtaz is the woman who illegally buys girls, and then forces them to have sex with with men for money. She then keeps the money, and uses it however she wants. This is a very terrible and unforgivable thing to do, she's mentally and physically abusing these young girls. She uses the girls have saved up for medicine when they get sick, give them drug when they don't want to "work," provides poverty living conditions, and doesn't protect them from any STD's they could get from men with unprotected sex.The woman is sick and she should go to prison for the rest of her life.
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i agree with Kameron, mumtaz is a seroiusly demented woman who would beat KIDS for asking to use a condom when having sex with filthy street men from an unknown town. these girls were so innocent and healthy but, now they are getting sick, being beaten, and being thrown out on the street.
Liya Buchanan, Scheller 1
DeleteI totally agree. These girls were very innocent and had no idea what they were getting themselves into. Lakshmi´s stepdad was supposed to be a trustworthy man who protected her, but instead all he did was cause her pain.
Taylor Jade
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I think Lakshmi's step fathers choices are horrible and crude. He gambles away what little money his family has, and what little profit he does make he uses it to buy himself nice things. he uses the money from the motorcycle to buy himself a new hat and clothes when all lakshmi and her sister wanted was a new dress and food for the baby. he is a thoughtless, and careless monster.
Sarah McGrael Scheller 2
ReplyDeleteI believe that Lakshmi's step father is a horrible person in general. Not only does he sell Lakshmi into prostitution, we can infer that all he is going to do with the money is gamble it away. I believe he is acting this way because he is ungrateful, lazy and greedy. If he was grateful he would try to save the money and improve his living situation. If he wasn't lazy he would have tried to find work, despite his missing hand. At the very least he could have helped his wife with the household chores. If he wasn't greedy he wouldn't be spending every night at the gambling den, losing all of the money that his family has for a chance at some more.
So true! Instead of trying to find a job and help out his family, he forces Lakshmi and her mother to make money, just so he can waste it. He is a very selfish and greedy character. Lakshmi was trying so hard to look at the bright side of things the whole time, which is a very strong thing to do. She is not ever going to fully get over this though. Her stepfather has caused her a lifetime of pain.
Delete^Liya Buchanan, Scheller 1
DeleteLiya Buchanan, Scheller 1
ReplyDeleteI think the most important conflict in this novel is morals. Of course sex trafficking is the ultimate problem, but one who would do something like this to a child has no morals. In this novel, people do not really care about the well-being of women or girls. Females are enslaved and used to benefit men. This is very disgusting, and not fair at all. Females should be treated with way more respect.
Emma Jones, Scheller, 2nd
DeleteI completely agree with you. Women should not be used to benefit men and the fact that others knew about it and just let it happen is horrific! Men nor women should have that kind of power over anyone, especially children who haven't known anything but that
the most important conflict in this novel is sex trafficking,especially to young girls like Lakshmi.mumtaz is the crazy sex trafficker in the story and she is very selfish.she cheats girls of their earnings and makes them do what they would never want to do.
ReplyDeleteEmma Jones, Scheller, 2nd
DeleteMumtaz is a horrible person and the fact that she could put these girls through this horrible experience is so crazy. No human being should be able to sit there and know that they are putting a child through something that's ruined their childhood. She would even throw the girls out on the street if they got a disease from one of the men that she had forced them to be with, she threw them out because of what she had done. It is so wrong and horrible
Emma Jones, Scheller, 2nd
ReplyDeleteThe most important conflict in the book to me,is when Lakshmi had started to become a woman so her step father sold her for money. If he would not have done that then she wouldn't have had to be put through that horrible experience no woman or child in this situation should ever have to deal with. The fact that it was women in charge of this to put their own kind through that type of thing is even worse. Men may not have respected women but women should respect each other and stand up for what is not right.
kameron williams scheller 2nd
Deleteit is so selfish that lakshmis step father sold her for money.she was put through the wost experiences if her life and she should never have to go through those things.