Summary Of Mccormick's Novel Sold

McCormick’s novel Sold is extremely relevant because of the enormous human trafficking industry in not only South Asia, but many other parts of the world. Worldwide, the US State Department estimates that nearly half a million children are trafficked into sexual slavery a year, and about 12,000 Nepali girls are sold by their families intentionally and unwillingly into sexual slavery in India annually. The issues of poverty, the shaming and subordination of women, rape, unsafe sexual practices and corrupt law enforcement officials pose extreme challenges to societies attempting to progress in the world, as well as the individuals who have to live with them. Also discussed in the novel, is the refusal of aid by women in brothels who do not realizes
This fear, along with language barriers and fear of punishment from brothel leaders and the police being paid by the leaders, often leads to the rejection of aid, and the closure of opportunities for escape. Still, many aid workers travel to South Asia every month and attempt to free these women of their debt and help reintroduce them to society. Sex trafficking is an extremely relevant issue because of the extent at which it still goes on today. Often, people living in “first-world” or “developed” nations tend to forget that sex trafficking still occurs, and have no idea what it is really like for the women involved. This can make it hard for them to escape, as it seems most people have just accepted the fact that this occurs and do little to nothing to help prevent it. However, we cannot neglect these women who feel like they have nothing left in the world. As written in the novel, after Lakshmi is raped for the first time, she says, “I hurt. I am torn and bleeding where the men have