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Sold by Patricia McCormick

Reading Sold makes me angry while reading it. I feel so bad for Lakshimi. She has no idea what she is about to get into. I think that her step father screwed her over. I think he had to of known what was going to happen to her. I don’t think that he is a very good man, because all he does is gamble and lose money. Lakshimi also didn’t even know what was going to happen she was all excited about going to be a maid and helping the family out all at the same time and then she realizes that it’s not at all  what he step dad and her mom thought that she was going to do. I think that Lakshimi is a strong stubborn person because her “owner” said that she was going to starve unless she had sex with the men that she sent to be with her in her room and she went 5 days without food or water and wasn’t giving in because she thought that is was wrong. I’m with her; I don’t think that it’s right. Eventually though, she had to sleep with the men in order to get money so she could help her family. It made me really mad when her “owner” cheated her out of her money so she may have to be there for awhile till she gets enough. I don’t get why people have houses and do this. I don’t get why they have young girls prostitute because so many things could go wrong. Like they could get a disease or get pregnant and they wouldn’t know what to do because they are like 13. I think that prostitution is wrong especially if they are so young like Lakshimi.