“As in the story “Sold”Class defined everything in that happened in their lives.
If Lakshmi had been of a higher class,none of the miserable things that happened to her when she was going to go to work in the city,would have happened to her?This happens in the lives of a lot of people”
Classism in the world today
Classism was and still is a huge issue in the world today.So as demonstrated in the book “Sold” by Patricia McCormick there are other girls and people whose class decides the path that they take in life.The way of being affected by class has given the feeling that “no matter what they do in life they will never be able to succeed and show the others that nothing is impossible”.Also, what these people do for money has made the people
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Although the people of really lower classes live in a series of huts in a certain place,they have their own standards like “A tin roof means a family has a father who doesn’t gamble away the landlord’s money playing cards in the tea shop. A tin roof means that when the rains come.the fire stays lit and the baby stays healthy”(Patricia McCormick,1).These people can be fortunate, sometimes if they have a family who actually care for them like in Gita’s family “Inside Gita 's family 's hut, it is daytime at night. But for me, it feels like nighttime even in the brightest sun without my friend.” (Patricia McCormick,3),but at the same time there are people like Lakshmi’s stepdad who does not care for Lakshmi or her mother,but only wants to stay home and spend all their money or go up to the mountains to gamble and play cards with other people like him.“Ama and I must each make twenty trips down the mountain to the village spring, waiting our turn to bring water up to the rice …show more content…
A son will always be a son, they say. But a girl is like a goat. Good as long as she gives you milk and butter. But not worth crying over when it 's time to make a stew.” (Patricia McCormick,8).So this shows that not only does Lakshmi’s stepdad like her but he also thinks that she is a burden for him to take care of, which he actually does not do.Although this opposes my claim,it shows that even if girls and other people like Lakshmi were/are of a higher class ,the presence of others like Lakshmi’s step dad could make the lives of these people miserable just because they do not like something and want to get