People are naturally curious about everything and stories are a way for people to educate themselves. For example, stories are a way to find out about history, events, and about the world. People also like stories for entertainment. They let your mind kind of go on an adventure. Books, T.V., songs, and movies are all a form of stories. I love stories because it feels like I’m really inside the book, and that I’m really a part the story. Stories give you pleasure in your life, and I can’t imagine a world without stories.
In Sold, Lakshmi didn’t have any way to experience stories when she went into the Happiness House. She couldn’t read, she wasn’t allowed to watch T.V. or listen to music. She had no pleasure in her life, and couldn’t even escape by reading a book or watching a show. Even though she can’t read a book or watch T.V., she still has the stories in her dreams. “Perhaps if I close my eyes and fall asleep again, I can at least dream of home.” (97) Stories and dreams are very important, especially to Lakshmi and all the girls in the Happiness House because within those dreams, they hold memories of what their lives used to be like before the Happiness House.
I agree with what you say about stories. They do educate people, and I believe that they are a main essential part of life. Stories do give you pleasure in life, but life would be impossible without stories. Any time you retell a past event in your life, you are telling a story. So, unless we only lived in the present and everyone instantly forgot about the past then we would live without stories. Also, they were able to watch T.V. in the Happiness House. They had one in a room and watched it all the time. Except I do agree, and in the happiness house they don't have much to do. And it never said this in the story, but I would assume that something that the girls did to pass time was tell stories to each other. It would be very boring if they didn't, and this is a way to help get to know each other.
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