Global Perspectives: The Novel Sold By Patricia Mccormick
Global Perspectives: Cultural novel Project ~ S. Mahone
Novel- Sold
Author- Patricia McCormick
Featured Country or Culture- Nepal,Calcutta
Cultural Novel- Students will research a country/culture and create a typed or handwritten report
based on the following criteria/questions:
1. Brief summary of novel- The novel Sold tells the story of a girl named Lakshmi from Nepal, who is sold into sexual slavery in India.When the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family’s crops, Lakshmi’s stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. She is then introduced to a charming stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid working for a wealthy woman in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi undertakes the long journey to India and arrives at the “Happiness House” full of hope. But she soon learns the horrible truth: she has been sold into prostitution, and trapped there until she can pay off her …show more content…
This system has "native girls believing they are going to get jobs," when really they end up "in brothels with no way to escape." To observe more about the system and interview the people in it, McCormick traveled to "a shelter in Kathmandu" and a village in the Himalayas.McCormick based the village Lakshmi lives on those she traveled to. She also spoke with girls and women in Calcutta's red-light district, where she learned about the many horrors of the system from two teenage girls who had escaped it. McCormick explained that "part of them became Lakshmi." McCormick also spoke with those who sold the girls into the system for profit. When she interviewed one man who was in prison for selling his fiancee, McCormick says, "He told me, without a trace of embarrassment, he wanted a motorcycle . . . He was utterly unconcerned about his fate; he knew he would get off in
Novel- Sold
Author- Patricia McCormick
Featured Country or Culture- Nepal,Calcutta
Cultural Novel- Students will research a country/culture and create a typed or handwritten report
based on the following criteria/questions:
1. Brief summary of novel- The novel Sold tells the story of a girl named Lakshmi from Nepal, who is sold into sexual slavery in India.When the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family’s crops, Lakshmi’s stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. She is then introduced to a charming stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid working for a wealthy woman in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi undertakes the long journey to India and arrives at the “Happiness House” full of hope. But she soon learns the horrible truth: she has been sold into prostitution, and trapped there until she can pay off her …show more content…
This system has "native girls believing they are going to get jobs," when really they end up "in brothels with no way to escape." To observe more about the system and interview the people in it, McCormick traveled to "a shelter in Kathmandu" and a village in the Himalayas.McCormick based the village Lakshmi lives on those she traveled to. She also spoke with girls and women in Calcutta's red-light district, where she learned about the many horrors of the system from two teenage girls who had escaped it. McCormick explained that "part of them became Lakshmi." McCormick also spoke with those who sold the girls into the system for profit. When she interviewed one man who was in prison for selling his fiancee, McCormick says, "He told me, without a trace of embarrassment, he wanted a motorcycle . . . He was utterly unconcerned about his fate; he knew he would get off in