sold blog 3

The story so far about this little girl named Lakshimi has been quite interresting to me so much I all most finished the book to quickly for class.   This poor little girl has gone through a lot of trials and tribulations.   She was sold by her stepfather in to the sex ring for money, for her family.   She had no idea what was going to happen to her, or prepared for it either.  She was led to believe that she was going to go to work for some rich person cleaning their home and being their made for other things,  She had no idea that she was being sold into the sex ring and how bad it was just going to be for her.  She was made to walk far away through many villages before they took any kind of transpotation to where they were taking her.   When she got there she was sold to this lady named Mumtaz for 10,000 rupees.   She was a innocent little girl til this cruel lady bought her.   She was forced to have sex with this old man causing her to loose her virgenity at the age of 13.   She attacked the man and bit him for trying to hurt her.   she tried to run away but was caught my Mumtaz and beat severly for it.  she beat her with a strapp from head to toe, leaving strapp marks all over her whole body.  Mumtaz locked her in a room for a few days no food or water, til she promised to comply.
She cut off all of her beautiful hair as a way to disgrace her for trying to run away.   This is a form of punishment that they do there to punish the women who run away from their husbands or owners and get caught.  To me I find this very disgraceful and wrong.  Lakshmi finds herself looking in a mirror at a little girl that has been forced to become a older woman before her time.  She does however manage to make friends with the other girls there and a little boy that teaches her how to read, write and talk the language there.  I feel so sorry for this little girl being force to pay this kind of debt and loosing herself in the prossess of it.