Becker Post Three :D

The indignant and somber tone throughout the novel Sold by Patricia McCormick, really sets in for the reader about how hard life can be in India right now for some people, and especially for the family who aren't getting enough money to get by in life. Reality really sets in, as McCormick hands you the piece of imagery, Lakshmi looks to her right and finds a man behind a red curtain zipping up his pants, and she realizes what her life had just been sold to. After being drugged through a simple sip of mango lassi, Lakshmi looses her motivation for not "working." The language that was chosen for this beautifully written novel expresses the hardships and pain that Lakshmi has to endure. While describing this, McCormick illustrated, in a very somber tone, what it was like to have the weight of a man on top of her, when he was not wanted there. "Then he is on top of me, and something hot and insistent is between my legs. He grunts and struggles, trying to fit himself inside me. With a sudden thrust, I am torn in two...After a while, I don't know how long, another sound interrupts the rhythmic thud of the headboard....Finally I identify it. It is the muffled sound of sobbing. Habib rolls off me. Then I understand: I was the person crying."(pg. 121) Her tone in this piece is shown through the dialogue like, sobbing, 'I don't know how long' and sudden thrust, show how indignant and somber she was.