The Author of Sold, Patricia McCormick, tells Lakshmi's story with a very somber, candid tone. When you read the book the writing is so openly truthful that it almost seems like you are talking to Lakshmi.
The way Patricia McCormick uses details really adds to the candid tone. It is not so much the actual details that make the tone, it is the fact that she doesn't cut out any details that people may not want to hear. The tone of the details is almost informative. It seems like the author is trying to bring attention to all of the bad things happening in India today. If she had left out the details about how horrible Mumtaz is, or how Lakshmi was whipped and starved, the book would have a very different tone.
The language the author uses is very simple. The words she uses to describe things are everyday words, which adds to the feeling that you are being told about Lakshmi's experience by Lakshmi herself.
The syntax in this book makes the tone somber. The short sentences are completely honest and the way they end so abruptly with out any good things to counteract the bad make the tone somber and sad. "According to the number of notches on Ama's wedding stump, she is thirty one and i am thirteen. If my baby brother lives through the season she will carve a notch for him. Four other babies were born between me and my brother. There are no notches for them." (12.) Also the way the lines are spaced sort of like in a poem makes you pause before reading each sentence. this adds emphasis to everything that happens in the story.
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