Pineda Post Three

Sold's author, Patricia McCormick, writes with a very objective and candid tone, which is expressed through a very valiant thirteen year old girl. She is objective in the form that, she likes to get straight to the point she trying to make. When Lakshmi arrived, she was being pushed into sleeping with a man. This resulted with him trying to squeeze into her, and her biting his lip and running away. She refused to sleep with anyone, and therefore, she was going to be starved. "I pound on the door. I howl like an animal. I pray. I pace the room. I kick the door. But I don't cry (108)." Patricia McCormick makes Lakshmi appear as a very brave girl by having a very objective and candid tone in her story. McCormick says the truth, not trying to hide any facts behind detail. This makes a clear image appear in the readers mind; a poor girl yelling for her life. She also uses really short sentences to get straight to her point. Finally, McCormick's diction is very direct. She uses no detail to enhance what is happening; I howl, I pound, I pray, I pace, I don't.