In my opinion the answer to the question "If you aren't part of the solution are you part of the problem?" is yes. Sometimes you cannot help becoming part of a problem, but often you can change the way you act so that you become part of the solution. Often problems start as small issues and become bigger when no one steps up to do what is right and solve the problem. If there is a problem in the world that you see is happening, but you do not do anything to stop it, then you also become part of the problem.
In the book Sold, the problem is that young girls from Nepal are being sold into prostitution against their will. When Lakshmi is sold to Mumtaz at the Happiness House, she becomes part of the problem. When she first come to Happiness House she tries to stand up to Mumtaz, and if she had succeeded she would have become part of the solution. Instead she decides there is nothing she can do about the situation and therefor she becomes a bigger part of the problem.
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ReplyDeleteNice post, I believe with you that sometimes you can't help becoming part of the problem, but you could help with becoming the solution. Another example that would work with your claim is that many people know about the "Happiness House" and what is going on in it, but no one seems to help. Like the policemen who go along with it because Mumtaz gives them money and the men that come to have sex with the girls. They see the problem happening even becoming part of it, but don't want to help becoming the solution. Good Job Emily! :)
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I liked how you said that none of what happened to her would have happened if she succeded in standing up to Mumtaz. "One day Mumtaz comes to my door without her strap. 'I have decided to let you live,' she says. Then she is gone, leaving me to ponder what will happen next. (118)." Its sad that Lakshmi didnt understand that the price of continuing her life was to have to give in to Mumtaz. Its interesting that she could either give her life for the cause of saving other women, and that might not even work, or she could continue living in hell, and there would be no movement to stop the Sex Trafficking. There is no way that she could help her situation that would be in a way that would benefit her or others, guaranteed.
ReplyDeleteI also wrote my post saying yes to the fact that if aren't the solution then you are part of the problem. If all the girls in the Happiness House got together and stood up for themselves they probably could of ruined Mumtaz business. But like you said yourself, if no body does anything about it it's just going to be a continuous problem.
ReplyDeleteI wrote the same thing thing as you and Jannely did because if you are not part of the solution then you would be part of the problem. Those two things go together and if your not with one then you are not with any.
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