Summary For Sold By Patricia Mccormick

¨80% of the Human Trafficking cases involve sexual intercourse by force¨-Us Department of Health. Patricia McCormick wrote Sold because she wanted to inform her audience and explain to her audience.”A tin roof means that when the rains come, the fire stays lit and the baby stays healthy”(McCormick 1). Sold is about a young female in Nepal name Lakshmi. Lakshmi is impoverished and her family needs money, so she gets sold to human trafficking. McCormick wanted to inform her audience about the global issue human trafficking. McCormick is explaining the life adventures of Lakshmi and her life issues that she encounters. People would say the McCormick wrote Sold to entertain her audience, however she wrote this story to express the allegory for

She made up the character Lakshmi, but put her in a realistic situation. Lakshmi was a young teenager growing up in Nepal. Her family was in poverty and they needed to get a source of money.”I spent a month in India and Nepal tracing Lakshmi’s steps—going from a poor, isolated village in the foothills of the Himalayas all the way to the teeming red-light district of Calcutta” (McCormick FAQS,1). This quote illustrates that McCormick was goal was to tell a story and to make the imaginary character real. She wanted to tell a story from an aspect of a victims from human trafficking. “‘My name is Lakshmi,’ I say. ‘I am from Nepal. I am fourteen years old’”(McCormick 263) This quote illustrates the bases that she made the character from. She made Lakshmi so realistic that you would be persuaded that she was an actual person. “McCormick also interviewed young women in Calcutta’s red-light district. ‘Access was easy,’ she said. ‘An aid worker simply took me down an alley to a warren of rooms where sex workers lived with nothing more than a bed and a curtain across the doorway” (Booklist,1). This quote illustrates how McCormick made a realistic imaginary character. She explain Lakshmi’s story with realistic events that happen to these victims. McCormick was able to have this character be able to relate to the women, which made this book become so real. McCormick explains Sold in the most existent aspect to make the readers see that she was explaining a story, but also trying to seek a resolution for the