Sex Traffickers In 'A Brief Summary Of The Book Sold'

Between sex traffickers in India, Nazis in World War Two, and Taliban leaders, when people feel the need to commit awful acts, they will abuse people who they feel are below them. Whether it’s religion, race, or wealth, bad people will find ways to feel superior to their victims. People will use the sense of superiority as an excuse to reason terrible actions As seen in the text Sold, sex traffickers will abuse poor farm girls by turning them into sex slaves, all because they feel superior to them. Often, levels of wealth give a sense of superiority over others with less wealth. Poor families from countries such as Nepal have virtually nothing. They live in shacks and trade their crops for other products. If the weather was especially bad

The kids were depended on to help with the house and the children. Education was often not a priority. Children from these families would skip school for months if there was work to be done at the house. In the case of the book, a storm destroyed the crops and the mother was desperate for money. The only reason she agreed to sending Lakshmi, the main character in the book, into the city was the idea that she would make money by working for a rich family and send it back home. Her mother was not aware that she would be taken advantage of and her daughter would actually be turned into a sex slave. Mumtaz, the sex trafficker, says to one of her slaves that has been sick for a few days that the only way that she won’t end up on the streets is if she sells her daughter to her because, “in a few years, when she is old enough, (she) can make a lot of money with her.” (McCormick 195) Mumtaz believes that since she is better than the poor slaves, she has enough reasoning to treat her inhumanly, even going as far as threatening the girls for her own financial benefit. The sex traffickers in the book would scope out these poor families with

This has been going on for all of time, with many more groups than just The Taliban. Throughout history, there has been many instances involving religious conflicts. This is started by one group of people believing that their ideas should be enforced on others because in their opinion, they are superior. From the catholics in Europe to the Islamics in the Middle East, this is not a new trend. While it is not uncommon for one to have the opinion that their belief is better than another's, feeling like they are better than the other person because of that belief is where the sense of superiority comes from. This is taken to the next level when they decide that this condones poor treatment of others. The Taliban reasons that having the Christian religion instantly makes you a target in their eyes. In the book Lone Survivor, the main character, a Navy SEAL, comes in contact with a young Taliban fighter who “started at (him) like (he’d) just rejected the entire teachings of the Koran” (Luttrell 166) and he “knew in an instant that if he could have killed (him), he would have.” (Luttrell 166) In this case, the young Taliban fighter automatically hated the Navy SEAL because he was a different religion. He believed his religion was better than anybody else's, and people with other religions should be punished. The goal of The