Makenna Finch Post 2

The word human comes with the feeling of dominance and superiority. Knowing that we are wiser, stronger, and better than all other life. Being human is to have hubris, to have the idea that we are better than nature, than animals, then humans with different colored skin; that we have the right to do anything we want to the world. Looking around it is so obvious that the soul thing the world is centered around is us. We have created or should I say destroyed this earth with one thing in mind: making our life easier. Think about it. We kill millions of billions of trees, homes to birds and squirrels, so we can press print as many times as we please. Our atmosphere that is so congested with toxic fumes and pollution that we are seeing our world’s inexorable cycles one by one start to crumble and all so we can get in a car and drive a few blocks instead of walk or bike. The word human means that you can do what ever we want and buy in to our atavistic urges.

In Sold we get to see how far humans have gone to show their dominance. To se that we have not only just destroyed our nature and animals but have gone as far as to take away the dignity of our own kind. When Lakshmi was sold into the brothel called Happiness House she thought that she was going to be a maid to earn money for her family. Little did she know she would be stripped of her rights and would be just another thing for humans to dominate and to use to satisfy their atavistic instinct. When she refuses they drug her and send men in so she cannot resist them. “Men come. They crush my bones with their weight. They split me open. Then they disappear” (123). Lakshmi is just another being that has found out the cruelties of human and seen the horrors they can do. The once ethereal world that surrounded her was ripped away and is now replaced with the reality of the messed up world that revolves around humans.