The images along with the tone play a large part on understanding how Lakshmi really feels, especially when losing her only friend. On pages 198 and 199, we are able to see how little Harish has when he has to pack up and leave the Happy House, adjacent to the powerful images of Harish packing up the little of what he has, is the powerful passage about feeling sorry. Sold is packed with details and images that leave the reader constantly wanting more!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
K. Dodge Post Three
The narrator of Sold, by Patricia McCormick talks with a sorrowful tone as she tells us her terrible story of losing everything she had and becoming someone she never dreamed of being. Lakshmi never dreamed she'd be living in a brothel working for a terrible, mango faced woman. As she tells the reader about her adventures and mishaps, it is often apparent that a sorrowful, abandoned tone is strung throughout the sentences. On page 199, "Harish, I say. He just looks at me. "Sorry, I am sorry today." Then he is gone." Lakshmi loses her only hope, the one person she can rely on, and she finally discovers the answer to her question. What is sorry? How do you feel sorry? When I read this passage, I felt my heart drop. I felt sorry for Lakshmi, she lost her hope and she had no one to rely on. We learn that she loses all of her ties and rocks of the "Happy House" she loses the ones that mean the most to her but as we learn, losing someone constantly makes you a better person!
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I definitely agree with you when you talk about how the tone is very sorrowful especially when all her hope disappeared. I also agree that every image and detail about what happens in the brothel, that the author gives makes the reader hooked and wondering what will occur next.
ReplyDeleteGood job Kate! I too talked about how the tone of the book is very somber, mainly because the reader is so aware of what's going on to Lakshmi when she is unaware. One of the most scary scenes in the beginning that I mentioned in my post 3 was the one where she is first put in the "Happy House" and still is very unaware of what is going on. Lakshmi even mentions,
ReplyDelete"Something is not right here. I don't know what's going on, but it is not right, not right at all.
Mumtaz pats the edge of the bed and tells me to come closer. The old man makes a chuckling sound." (103)
This novel clearly has a somber tone from the beginning and throughout!