Summary Of Mccormick's Sold

Should the privileged be able to make money off the less fortunate? McCormick is one of the many authors who write about their main character being in poverty despite never experiencing it themselves. However, there are some things that differentiate her from those type of authors. McCormick tells the stories of trials and tribulations through the eyes of the people she has met. Throughout, her life McCormick helped dozens and wrote books to help bring awareness to the issues in the world. Although McCormick grew up in a privileged household, she was still aware of negative social issues around the world, and she aspired to bring attention to these issues. She strongly believed in helping others and that is shown in her books Sold and Purple
McCormick tells this story because her encounter with Lakshmi encouraged her to write a book that brought attention to the horrible truths of child trafficking. She gathered information after learning of the girl’s past and was astonished by how many young girls were being sold off. McCormick discovered that it happens very often, especially in developing countries. The author writes the book in a series of vignettes and in Ingrid Roper’s interview she explains “white space between vignettes calls on the reader to engage his or her imagination in the story-telling process to fill in the blanks” (BookBrowse). Hew writing style allows readers put together the pieces of Lakshmi’s story, as if they were with her all along, and form an emotional bond with the girl. Sold plot deals mostly with the sickening act of selling children into the sex business. Lakshmi is just 13 years old when she is bought by her new owners by her step- father. After disaster strikes her village and her family’s rice field is destroyed, she is told by her father that she needs to be a maid for money. McCormick shows her as a strong girl for her age and shows an outward courageous appearance. However, her true sadness is shown internally when she states, “Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy”
McCormick believes that she will be able to reach out to people in America with her books. She states in Ingrid Roper’s interview, “I hope that they come away with the same sense of urgency that I had after my experience (Publisher Weekly).” McCormick’s main concerns are to enable readers to share her experiences and enlighten them. Throughout her life, she has made it her goal to end the lack of concern for the people suffering in other countries. As we all know, child prostitution is an ever-growing issue. Child trafficking happens in various places, but it continues to excessively occur in developing countries. McCormick chose Nepal as her location of interest for her research on child prostitution because it was less dangerous for her and aid workers. While interviewed by Roper, She explains, “I chose Nepal and India because the aid workers had told me that enough progress had been made there that I could find shelters that were set up for the women” (PublisherWeekly). There are very few safe zones for women because being forced into prostitution is extremely high, but some Americans would not know without exploring the world or reading books like Sold. There are also many countries where innocent civilians are killed every day because the war in their countries. The author believes that if