As you read on in the story, you learn more about the author's writing and its style. Patricia McCormick uses a lot of different tones in her novel Sold, depending on what she is talking about her tone changes. If McCormick talks about Lakshmi's family and her memories back home, there is a loving tone to it. For example how she mentions what she will do with the money she will earn by working; buying a new shawl for her mother, and bread for her little brother, even a new hat for her step-father.
When McCormick talks about unpleasent things the tone of the book has a more somber. The gloomy and dark feeeling definitely portrays in her short sometimes curt sentences. ""Hold still," her teeth clenched. 'Or I'll slice your throat."" (page 107).
I completely agree! It's something about when she talks about her family and the way she wants to support them. Not only is the tone loving, but also self determination for her to fulfill her prophecy. The thing she cares about more than anything in the world is her family, and she would do anything to help them. This describes how she would do anything, even if it is the most difficult of things.
ReplyDeleteI agree! She would do anything to pay off the debt, and if that means staying there for probably the rest of her life, she would do it. But I just don't get why she would want to get anything for her step father. After all, he was the one who put her in the Happiness House in the first place.
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