"if you aren't apart of the solution, are you apart of the problem?" This quote bring the quote "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends" - Martin Luther King Junior. Its easy to hear about problems happening, like war, abuse, and slavery, and not do anything about it. But when it affects you directly it's a different story all together. You want to help, but usually when you're so desperately wanting to find the solution you are being too affected by the problem, almost leaving you your self helpless. I don't necessarily think you are apart of the problem as an individual, but if everyone as a whole is not being helpful then there will be no way to find a solution, which can cause the problem. So if every body does nothing then the solution will never present its self.
In sold, by Patricia McCormick, Lakshmi is being trafficked as a sex slave. It could be argued that because Lakshmi isn't standing up for her self and is "willingly" being trafficked she is not being apart of the solution, but to back up what i said earlier, she is so deep into the problem that she is helpless to even find a solution. It is disgusting the way that she is being treated, but she is so helpless there is nothing she can even do.
I agree that she is so stuck in the problem menatlly and physically that she has no way out. I also feel that she is stuck even further into the problem because she is starting to get and feel a relationship between thi syoung boy and it makes her feel like she is home again. Maybe, she will never be home again, and so she wants to try to relive it as soon as possible.
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