old girl named Lakshmi gets sold from her stepfather to a woman named Mumtaz in India. Lakshmi then has to survive the cruel things that Mumtaz makes her do to earn money back for her freedom. Sold demonstrates that adjusting to surroundings is important for survival through living with limited money‚ getting bullied‚ and coping with raping. Sold demonstrates survival by showing how to get through a situation where you have little to nothing and making the most of it. When Lakshmi
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If Lakshmi did not have perseverance‚ then she would have given up like a lot of girls‚ and she would have gotten beaten for not trying‚ or not making enough money for Mumtaz. (PAGE 223) “ Today I will show her my calculations‚ the figures i’ve checked and rechecked and checked again‚ the numbers that say I will have paid off my debt by this time next year.” Lakshmi is working just as hard doing her calculations on when she can get out as every night. Lakshmi is sure of it that if
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If Lakshmi did not have perseverance‚ then she would have given up like a lot of girls‚ and she would have gotten beaten for not trying‚ or not making enough money for Mumtaz. (PAGE 223) “Today I will show her my calculations‚ the figures i’ve checked and rechecked and checked again‚ the numbers that say I will have paid off my debt by this time next year.” Lakshmi is working just as hard doing her calculations on when she can get out as every night. Lakshmi is sure of it that if
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between tradition vs change. Hariharan’s blind acceptance of mistreating Lakshmi is what leads her to such impulsive way to gain control of her own life. “Lakshmi got tired just thinking about the predictability of her life.” With this statement we can presume she feels obligated to serve Hariharan due to their marriage and customs. “Mornings begun thus with Sanskrit and Sangeet would make one feel warm and pure.” Lakshmis flashback to India provides the reader with evidence that like Hariharan
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. . . Her second novel‚ My Brother’s Keeper‚ cuts even more deeply.” —New York Times Book Review HYPERION 114 Fifth Avenue‚ New York‚ NY 10011 Visit us at www.hyperionteens.com DISCUSSION GUIDE H YP ER I O N ABOUT THE BOOK DISCUSSION GUIDE Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on 1 What is Lakshmi’s life like in her Nepal mountain home? What events create the need for her to go into the city? 2 Discuss the vignette entitled “Everything I Need to Know
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It is hard to imagine how liberation could be a product bought by status. Throughout life‚ people are continuously confronted with the reality of societal rankings. Patricia McCormick’s realistic fictional novel‚ Sold‚ tells the story of Lakshmi‚ a young girl thrown into the world of human trafficking. As she is forced to come to terms with her circumstances‚ the story follows her struggle for autonomy. Through the lens of Marxist criticism‚ readers discern that economic status and social class shape
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What Mitr‚ My Friend Really Does? Feminists have come up with the relations of family and the marginalisation of women. And there are many stories in novel and movies that showed the struggles of women as a wife and a mother. Mitr‚ My Friend is a movie like that‚ where it highlights the identity crisis of a woman as a wife and as a mother. When I saw the movie I found that even though the women crew highlights the struggles a sense of heteropatriarchy is established in the movie which again makes
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writing competition‚ "Women of change". At the time when women were considered the weaker sex‚ she rose up with such great power that Britishers feared her very name. The woman of self respect and self confidence is none other than the matyr Rani Lakshmi Bai who is well known as Jhani ki Rani (Queen of Jhansi). She was one of the bravest and an important figure in the fight for Indian freedom from British colonialism. She was born to a Maharashtrian family at Kashi‚ India in the year of 1828. During
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Rani Lakshmi Bai‚ Bravery Woman Originally named Manikarnika at birth. She was born on 19 November 1835 at Kashi (Varanasi) to a Maharashtrian Marathi Karhade Brahmin family. Moropant Tambe and Bhagirathibai Tambe was her parents. She was also known as Chhabili by the Peshwa of Bithur because of her jolly ways. She lost her mother at the age of four. She was educated at home. Her father Moropant Tambe worked at the court of Peshwa at Bithur. The Peshwa of Bithur brought her up like his own daughter
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Diwali is the festival of lights. It is also known as’ Deepawali’. It is celebrated in our country which joy and happiness every year. It is one of the biggest festival of Hindus. Usually it comes in the month of October and November after twenty days of Dussehra‚ on the 13th day of the dark fortnight of the month of Ashwin. It is celebrated in the memory of coming back home of Lord Rama along with his wife Sita & brother Laxman after 14 years of exile. It is believed that on this day‚ Lord Rama
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