S. Demesmaker Blog 5

Stories as humans is how we learn. We have become a society by learning from stories of other peoples' mistakes and they ways that they have succeeded. We grow by learning, and we learn by doing. But as human beings we cant do everything, so we need to trust peoples' stories so we can learn what is right or wrong. On the other hand, however, we take what we hear and automatically consider it to be true, we never actually have the ability to test it out for our self. We have become ignorant to the idea that maybe people could not be telling us the complete truth.

In Sold by Patricia McCormick, hearing a story and taking what the story teller said with complete trust was what the stem of this book was. Lakshmi heard from a women that in the city where she could work, the streets were paved with gold and everybody was working and happy. It wasn't until she went to the city her self that she found the city to be the absolute opposite of what she had expected. This just goes to show that stories are a major part of our world, sometimes for better, sometimes for worst. Stories should be hypotheses, that we test out in our future... not just something we take for granted.