Patricia McCormick wrote Sold, a National Book Award winner. This book focuses on a young girl who was sold into prostitution by her stepfather. Lakshmi thought she was going to the city to work as a maid and help her family earn money. She didn't let her situation get her down however, she stayed positive the entire time she was at the house. One way she passed time was by figuring out how long it would take her to pay off her debt and leave. She made friends with one of the other girls at the house and trusted her and told her everything she was thinking. One night an American came into Lakshmi’s room and gave her a card with words that she couldn’t understand. He asked her if she wanted to go with him but she was to scared to say anything. Eventually another American …show more content…
First they act like they will protect the girls no matter what. They earn their trust and their families trust. Some families truly believe that they are giving their children to good people who will offer them a job. The young children also don’t know better than to look for warning signs. Also if the children would try and run they would be beaten, never killed. If they were killed they would make no money off of them. “At the center of the group, a girl my age crouches in the dirt. Her scalp has been freshly shaved—pale and fragile as a bird’s egg—and hanks of her long dark hair lie in coils at her feet”(McCormick 85). If the girls try to run away they get their heads shaved so everyone will know that they belong to someone else and they would be returned. After the women are rescued their lives don’t just go back to normal. Even though in this story we don’t learn about what Lakshmi went through after she was rescued we can assume that it was not all good things. Some women experience Stockholm Syndrome after leaving because they have been doing it for so long and don’t know what kind of reaction they will get from their families and