Emily Dodge FINAL POST #5

I can recall growing up, and my parents would reading me bedtime stories. I heard everything from how the princess ended up with the prince to the children went running in the growing fields. These stories not only I grew up, but everyone grew up with, do not prepare us for life. They give us hope that later in life, as we begin to age and make a difference in this world, things are going to end up like they do in these stories. All humans hear and tell stories, whether they have a happy ending, or a not so happy ending. But what we are not told in these stories is the truth of reality. We are not told of hardship and death and what we face in real life. But even then, these stories are so crucial to our lives, that although we are being lied to, we rely on them. It's human nature to want to believe these stories, which I feel is why we continue to tell and read them. We want to hold onto to this unrealistic life, and someday hope, all the happy endings, come true.

Sold prepares you for reality, but not only that, it gives you the cold hard truth of what life is actually about; lies and manipulation. Lakshmi needs to believe the stories she hears, because it's all she has to believe. Going into the city, she needs to hold onto the fact that she is just going there to be a maid, and that the money she is earning is going to her family, although we all know this story she knows is not true. She is being sex trafficked, drugged, and stolen from. This does not sounds like the stories we hear.