"SOLD" 4

     In the book sold, the character Lakshmi is very worthy of my praise.   She was just only a little girl going through a lot experiences that she should never of had to face til she was much older in life.   Having to go from having a family to going to live in a brothel and feeling so alone to face the things she did head on with out the knoweldge of what was going and did happen to her.   I have to commend her for her bravery.   I have to critise her mother Alma for putting her daughter in such a predictament in her life.  Letting her stepfather take her and sell her in to prostitution.   I think she should have got off her butt in the book and found a way to take care of her family better than she was doing.    The stepfather I feel needs to be criticised for what he did to her because I myself was hurt by my own stepfather and know what it feels like to be betrayed by a person you love.  He should have found a better way to deal with the problem they were having.   He could of at least quit drinking and gambleling so his family could at least survive without taking such a drastic measure.   I feel the mean lady Muntaz that bought Lakshmi needs to be criticised very harshly.   The way she treated Lakshmi and the other girls in this story was very horrible and she should have been beatin heself for the way she beat and starved and pushed them to have sex with strange men the way she did. Taking away their innocense and self respect the way she did is a crime I feel can not be forgiven lightly by any one.   I feel the Americans in this story deserve my praise because it took a lot of bravery for them to go into a place like this and try to save the women and children from this crime that was occurring to them.  They alone could have been caught and the outcome could have been quite bad for the people they were trying to save.