'Hi my name is Lakshmi.' 'I am from Nepal.' 'I am fourteen years old.' 'Hi my name is Lakshmi' 'I am from Nepal' 'I am thirteen years old.' Once read, you will not be able to erase Lakshmi's experience from memory. THIS STORY CUTS DEEP - NO MATTER HOW SENSITIVELY TOLD I personally think elaborating on the Brothel owner's lives and how they became brothel owners would have been a nice touch to the book.Ĭaution to sensitive souls and innocent minds: I didn't love the book for two reasons: the ending is a cliff hanger & Patricia McCormick didn't elaborate on the lives of others as much as Lakshmi's. The book is a roughly 250 pg collection of short/long vignettes which make for an interesting read and a stronger emotional appeal with readers. So to you Patricia McCorMick, I say BLESS UP. Patricia McCormick places these words in Lakshmi's mouth in order to instill the idea that 'good always prevails over evil' into the reader. I know that I would endure a hundred punishments to be free of this place.”-Lakshmi, pg.

Despite her mostly vulgar customers and oppressive overseer Lakshmi eventually finds the conviction to reach out for the helping hand of an American, a hand which she cannot decipher true intentions of, but one that ends up saving her life. Lakshmi did, however, have vulgar American customers in addition to her moral ones. Not to mention the hope which was instilled in her by some of the conscientious American “customers” whom only came to the brothel to help young girls escape and then to crack down on the owner. It takes two young boys playing a significant role in her life at different times to re-convey to her that life is worth living.

Then her heart is re-torn by the brothel’s ill willed customers and it's arbitrary owner, at first. Lakshmi’s heart is ripped apart by her step-fathers ill-will. A sum immediately spent in front of Lakshmi on cheap sunglasses and commercial items. So goes the story of a young girl in Sold Lakshmi, a 13 year old girl from Nepal is sold into the sex trade in India by her step-father for a small sum of money. Until of course, the light of morality shines in upon evil, turning it over to the people for judgement. Immoral persons of power will exploit every possible avenue created by these new comings in their shadows. Additionally, as new ideas, technologies, and social normalcies arise so will shadows of evil exploitation which are cast amidst their unfamiliar ways. The world is unforgiving, the light representing all that is good in the world does not immediately find its way into the darkness as depicted in Sold.

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