Meckfessel Post #2

To be “human” can mean a number of things. It can mean to have feelings or emotions and to use these feelings to express yourself, to make hundreds of mistakes and be able to take something away from them to learn from them. To be someone’s friend or enemy, when you’re human you can have both good and bad qualities. Being selfish, greedy or cruel, or to be kind, compassionate and forgiving. Are some of the contrasting qualities which all human’s poses. This list can go on and on but I feel that overall to be human can make us vain. Because in our world we are the most advanced beings, we really have no competition when it comes to who’s smarter and who has the most power. But having this power also makes us look down upon other humans. Makes us feel that were better or superior to people that are less smart, uglier, or poorer. Being human makes us feel superior to people we think are less than us.

In Patricia McCormick’s Sold we are shown how someone can take a little innocent girl and take advantage of how kind and trusting she is and cell her into slavery. When all that she wanted was to get a job to help her family find buy everyday things like cloths, food and a roof over their head. Once Lakshmi is sold into “ Happiness House” a brothel in India, she learned how cruel people could be. She also learns that no matter how hard she works or how good she is it will never change the fact that she is now a disgrace to her society and her family. This is an example of how someone can be oppressed by people that that think they are better than them. Mumtaz dominates over the girls in the brothel because she feels that they are nothing more than objects that have no purpose in life than to serve her and her costumers. In this situation Mumtaz is the one that has all the power. The main oppressors in Sold I feel is the society that they live in because if these woe=en were to ever go back out onto the street they would be shunned, because society feels like they are superior to these women.