Sold By Patricia Mccormick Analysis

“I decide to think that it is all a nightmare. Because if what is happening is real, it is unbearable” (). This is merely one of the heart crushing moments in the novel Sold by Patricia McCormick. This is a realistic fiction about the atrocities of human trafficking and the sex trade in third world countries. Some would argue that this is merely a coming-of-age story written to entertain ,however, most agree that McCormick wrote this story to inform young adults about human trafficking of children in other countries.

In order to figure out why McCormick wrote the story, most would have to find out who she is and where she comes from. "I grew up in a rather bland suburban development, not unlike the settings in my books. It was a place that,

Let's face it, most American citizens do not know about crime that happens within our own country. So you can forget about what they know for foreign issues. "’Human trafficking is the second largest criminal business grossing an estimated $32 billion per year,’” says John Grier, a human trafficking expert in an interview with Time Magazine. With an income like that you would think there would be more knowledge of this crisis in well developed countries who watch where money goes. However "Most people who are trafficked are paid for in cash making the transaction untraceable" Says Grier. Those who traffick humans are no dunces, they know that credit cards are the fastest way to be caught. “Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.” (Exodus 21:16) This quote appears in this form within the bible and a similar form in the Quran (The Islamic form of the bible). Human trafficking is most common in the middle eastern countries, where Islam is the most common religion. So someone explain how the religion that frowns upon slavery has the most common slavery