K. Dodge Post Five

There's a quote in either 125, 0r 126 that states, if I remember, something about telling someone a story because it's the only thing that could help them get through their day. As humans, we are constantly telling stories, our life is a story. We read stories, we write them, and we watch them happen. The stories we tell express what we did, and how we feel. Being able to recall what we did, and retell it is a human trait. It takes memory, and we have to be able to dictate it. I find myself CONSTANTLY telling stories. It's how we get our feelings across and how we explain things to people. Telling stories is a habit, it is something we were all born to do. We learn things from peoples' stories. Stories are very important to humans, they are a large part of our lives as we are constantly living in our own stories.

The book Sold is a story about a girl who may possibly have the worst luck in the world, as she gets schemed into working as a sex slave in India. She tells us her story as if it's something she has to do. It's an instinct. The reader goes through almost every day with her, we meet her friends, and enemies. She tells us the story of her life. Often times we are protected from the truth, shielded from the violence and the harshness of real life. In this book, novel, story whatever you want to call it, we learn about the true outside world. Out of the bubble of America, we learn about how those less fortunate have to live. We feel for these poor girls who are being treated like animals. But Lakshmi tells her story to raise awareness, to let people know what really happens to those less fortunate. We tell stories through instinct. To teach people about our mistakes and how we live. We learn how Lakshmi lives, we learn how many girls worldwide live. They tell us the stories of their lives.