What is it to be human? This is one of the most esoteric questions you could come across. If you asked the dictionary it might respond with a simple and plain "Of or pertaining to the social aspect of people." A real definition would need more questions than that. You could fill a whole book with all the different aspects of humanity from everyone's points of view. I think that humanity is the difference between our species and other animals. We have a more complex lexicon, more complex wants and needs, more complex feelings, basically everything about us is more complex. I also think to be human is to be able to express those wants and feelings.
In the book SOLD by Patricia McCormick, the main character Lakshmi is supposedly stripped of her humanity. Sold into, what she doesn't yet know is, sex slavery against her will, she struggles to have the same humanitarian rights as others. She is belittled because of her she is of a poor social class. The people that "own" her think they are of a different breed entirely just because she is brought up a different way. She is the working class and they are just classy.
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