In Sold, by Patricia McCormick, you can see the positive and negative aspects of stories. For example, in the beginning, Lakshmi heard wonderful stories of the city and how much promise it held, therefor she didn't hesitate at the opportunity to go there. Those stories she had heard, in the end, hurt her because she had no apprehension over leaving her nice life with her family and in turn, unknowingly entered the trade of sex slavery. Also, when Lakshmi is at the sex slavery place called "Happiness House," he hears stories of things that had happened to the other girls, such as how Anita's face got the way it was. These stories scared Lakshmi and made her very afraid. Those are examples of how stories can effect you negatively, however in Sold, you also see how stories can help people. When Lakshmi hears stories about the outside world and how life is outside of Happiness House it fills her with hope and a determination to escape. In that way stories are very positive because they are a way to instill hope in someone who once felt completely hopeless.
Stories are extremely important to humans and rightfully so. They are able to help, hurt, but most of all pass on knowledge from years past and years to come.
I really like what you said about the stories, and when you said that stories give you hope, they also inspire us to do what is either right for us, or for others. Lakshmi is staying there to do good for her family, but she finally realizes that she needs to do something for herself. She will pass the knowledge on to her family and to friends. It was great how she did that.
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