If you aren't part of the solution are you part of the probleam? Sometimes you try so hard to fix a probleam, but no matter what you do, there is just no solution. You feel like you are so close to solving it, but there is no ending it. In some cases you are part of the probleam, just getting in the way of your self. Other times, something or someone, is blocking you from finding that solution.
In the book Sold by Patricia McCormick, the protagonist Lakshimi, is a girl who is sold into the world of sex trafficking. She despises her new life, longing to return home. She keeps track of the money that she has earned and counts the days until she can return home. Lakshimi works hard and even avoids the temptations of the tea cart that comes every day. She brings her calculations to Auntie Mumtaz and learns the hard truth. ""Let me do the calculations for you," she says. She prentends to be adding and subtracting. "Yes," she says. "It's as I thought. You have at least five more years here with me."" (226) The dreams of one more year until returning home are broken. Lakshimi is not part of the solution nor the probleam, because someone else is in the way of her finding a solution.
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