"If you aren't part of the solution, are you part of the problem?" If you aren't helping the problem at all, then yes that makes you part it. If you stand along the side lines and do nothing to help what so ever, the solution can never be resolved. It takes action by everyone in order for the problem to become the solution.
The problem in Sold are that young girls are being sold into prostitution. The problem adds on whenever there is a new girl at the Happiness House. At first Lakshmi was trying to be part of the solution by not obeying to Mumtaz horrid demands, but having to give in to take care of her family, she adds on to the problem. Lakshmi did believe that there will be a good side to all those in the end. But when she loses that faith, a bigger problem is added on to the house, the loss of hope.
I completely understand your perspective on the way the girls are treated in the Happiness House. Lakshmi was trying to be part of the solution, but since she didn't succeed and reach her goal- do you still think she was part of the solution to the problem? I think that no matter what Lakshmi did, she had no real way to fix the problems that were arising at the happiness house, because she wanted to help the problems that were occurring at her household in her country. Technically, she was the solution for one problem by being part of another. Beautifully written by the way, Jannely. :)
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