Sold

The book that I just started reading is called Sold by, Patricia McCormick is about a young girl named Lakshmi who is sold into prositition. Since I am only partly into teh book I have only gotten to a certain point. Lakshmi has just come from her house on the mountain to a large city to maybe riches. Her family is very very pour and her mother has just remarried. He is a very forceful man. Her mother feels powerless around him. She does what he tells her to do, and is very obedient. The man she has remarried to is a man who gambles too much, and gambles their spendings away, so now his step-duaghter has to go work in the city. She doesn't know thats he is going to work to be a prostitute though. She thinks that she is going to work in the city to be a maid for another mother. She is brought to the city by many different people and finally brought her to a house of many woman and children. She is dress us very majestically. All the while when the servants are dressing her she is thinking, why do I need to dress up to work? Then the maids lock her in a room with a middle-aged man, and is very confused as to what is happening. Then her work begins. 

I think that the way that way that woman feel in other countries in relation to men is heartbreaking. They are ordered and expected to look up men in society. Both at home and at her new job Lakshmi experienced that men were in control of her, and she could do nothing about it. I feel that Lakshmi was a little bit oblivious as to what was happening. I think that she should've stood up for herself more than she did. I think that woman rights in other countries should be established, because as much as we don't want this to be the truth, this is still happening all around the world. I feel that if everybody would stand up for woman who don't have as much power as their husbands or even in their societies, woman would feel like they are living in a more supportive environment. I think this would lead to woman having a better education, rather than working as a house maid their whole lives, putting their husbands before them. I feel that woman's rights is a big deal, and should be recognized more than it is right now.