Stories are a thing that has been cherished by humans for generations. Before there was the technology to relay information to the next generation there were stories, to be told. For human’s stories give us a chance to go into another world, experience new thing through someone else’s eyes. A great form of entertainment. They also relay lessons, and history. But overall they give us a chance to see how other people live. Its lets us know how harsh people’s lives can be that don’t live near us or around us. Its also lets us know how people in different cultures live and how different all of there beliefs are. At times it is not always easy to read about how harsh other people’s life can be.
In Sarah McCormick’s Sold we get told a story about a young girl named Lakshmi, at first she lives in a small simple village in Nepal, but soon gets sold by her father into sex slavery. She travels to India were she meets Mumtaz a truly awful woman who runs the “Happiness House” that Lakshmi is now forced to work in. We see this awful journey that Lakshmi takes throughout the book, I personally knew nothing about sex trafficking before reading Sold. By reading this book I saw how awful some people’s life can be, and how truly lucky I am to live where I do. It was a very intense book to read but it really opened my eyes to how tough people lives can be that live in other parts of the world, and how easily they can be taken advantage of.
I really agree with what you said about how stories can portray how others live and what atrocities sometimes take place. I also agree that stories are in general, a very positive thing for humans, however I also think they can have a very negative effect as well. For example, in Sold, Lakshmi had heard stories f how wonderful the city was, so she eagerly left to go there, but in the end, her naivety and lack of knowledge really hurt her because the only knowledge she had of the city was from stories. In the stories, the city had been painted to be a wonderful place where life could be better, and yes thats partly true, but, as we know, it didn't work out so well for Lakshmi. So in that way, the stories she had heard hurt her. Overall, i really liked your post. Good job, Izzy! (:
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