Stories can be true or fiction, heartwarming or tragic, but we can relate. We, as humans, know the emotion behind heartbreak, and the joy of accomplishment. People can show exactly what they feel through stories, whether it is a short anecdote or a drawn out novel with many chapters and different events, and so it is easy to relate. Even if you read a book out of sure entertainment, sharing experiences and mistakes is key to be a human being.
The book Sold, is a short yet very moving novel. This novel tells the story of a young girl's life that seems to takes a turn for the worst. Lakshmi, the young girl, was told many stories as a young girl. She was told stories about how her life would be once she grew into a woman and how she would have her own children. This was one of Lakshmi's favorite things to day dream about. Other stories that she hears about is how she might go off to the big city outside her small village and get a job as a maid in a rich family's house to help her family buy a new tin roof. What Lakshmi doesn't quite understand is that just because her mom tells her stories about how her life may turn out, it doesn't mean that her fate is laid out for her within the stories.
I like the way you described the different types of stories. Also how you relate that to how Lakshmi was told stories, and how she dreamed of growing up. It really is a depressing thing that she didn't get to experience those things the way she would have liked. How without a choice she gets thrown into the "Happiness House" miserably have to live. And your right when you say her fate wasn't laid out for her in her stories because her reality was nothing like the stories. In reality she is stuck living in the happiness house until she is finally freed.
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