Pineda Post Four

There can exist a lot of disputes concerning the question, "If you aren't part of the solution, are you part of the problem?" In my opinion, if you are not part of the solution, then you are indeed part of the problem. You may let yourself believe that you aren't directly causing the problem, but by not doing anything to stop it you become a big factor within the problem making the problem grow worse. Then you slowly become the roots of the problem by causing it to grow more because of your ignorance towards the situation. What many people don't realize is that by letting problems grow in your surroundings, our world is being flooded with many horrors. If we all decided to work together and stop the terror movie we live in, then our world would be able to prosper, while learning to not make the same mistakes we have made in the past.

In Sold, by Patricia McCormick, even those who are supposed to look for justice ignore the problem, therefore making the problem even worse. Mumtaz, the owner of The Happy House, was paying a "fat roll of rupee notes to a man". The man she gave the money to was a police officer. "Policemen are supposed to stop people like Mumtaz from selling girls, but she gives this one money each week and he looks the other way (159)." This police officer was the roots of the problem of prostitution which Lakshmi was a victim of. He was being bribed into becoming the accomplice of The Happy House's prostitution problem. By not doing the right thing, and not trying to find a solution of the problem, the police officer has become a huge factor in the problem with his ignorance. If he were to make the decision of becoming part of the solution, he could have saved many young girls lives, and not just his own.