Sold, By Patricia McCormick, is a great example of storytelling. McCormick tells a fictional, yet very real, story through the eyes of Lakshmi, a thirteen year old girl, trapped in a world of rape, abuse, hate, and sadness. Lakshmi's innocence is taking once she is sold into sex slavery. Each day, she must sell her body to over fifteen strangers, hoping to pay off her debt to her owner, Mumtaz, a heartless and greedy woman. The readers can feel Lakshmi's pain through this powerful story. Patricia McCormick was able to learn and hear stories from sex trafficking victims from Nepal, to create her own story for us to hear. Storytelling is so important to humans, and the art will continue flourish through time.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Anabelle Swezy Post #5
Storytelling is an art, kept alive by shared experiences for entertainment and learning. Experiences shared by other humans help us learn, for it takes us to a part of our mind, one full of emotion and needs, to be inspired on one's journeys. Stories are enlightening, along with the feelings the bring to us. One moment they make us burst into laughter, but the next we are drowning in our own tears. Not only do stories entertain us, but they also teach us. We learn so much from books, fiction or non-fiction, about different people and their stories from around the world. The information we learn in our school texts books is even a story, for it informs us on new ideas and information to expand that part of our mind.
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McCormick definitely taught and told a story at the same time. While she also makes the story completely believable as if a 13 year old girl is really telling the story. Something many people can't do without making it to factual. The whole book is an example of this, though it's hard to pick out one example I would say this one really stayed with me throughout the book, "I study the strange American card. it has words and numbers in tiny print." Lakshmi is talking about the American flag, but in way making it the first disocovery ever of it and a strange, new, intriguing thing.
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