Although, in Sold, Lakshmi listens to her family and trusts what they tell her when really it was wrong. Although she has her blood family, but her friends in the Happiness House count as a family also to Lakshmi. They may have not been her mother and father’s blood, but the girls in the house all act as one family. They care and trust each other just like a family does. In the story, one of Lakshmi’s family members, Anita, tells her false information. She tells Lakshmi, “‘The Americans will try to trick you into running away,’ says Anita. ‘Don’t be fooled. They will shame you and make you walk naked through the streets”’ (142). All the girls in the Happiness House believe in this rumor strongly. So when she gives Lakshmi this advice, she trusts