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1. Both stories are sad/dark (both stories develop a depressing atmosphere)
2. Both involve culture that shapes society (religion, societal beliefs, etc.)
3. Both are stories of a female's struggles

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1)Both have depressing conflicts
2)Religion affects how they appear to society
3)Have to do with great sacrifices in order to accomplish their wants.
*Juliana Benitez*

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2: Both revolve around Asia
3: The relationships of all the feelings that Lord Krishna explains, could resemble Lakshmi's roller coaster of events with maturity and all of the feelings she undergoes in the story.

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1)Both characters have inner conflicts about their destiny
2)The night was not a good time in either story.
3)Krishna speaks about when "the mind submits to the play of the senses". Lakshmi kept observing and didn't let her feeling take over.

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2) Both tell stories of females
3) They deal with religion and are influenced heavily in their lives by religion.

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1.in both story's a family member had to sacrifice something for the good of the family
2.Both tell story's of female struggle
3. Religion is a big part of thei life

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1. Both have multiple examples of personification.

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1. Both have multiple examples of personification.

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2. Both families have one member to make a big sacrifice for them.
3. Both give up luxuries.

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1. Arjuna has to sacrifice himself for his family too
2. Gods hold a big role
3.Both stories have a peaceful religion, but there's a lot of violence.

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1. Night involves goddess and Lakshmi is named after a goddess.
2. They must both slowly accept darkness into their lives.
3. They honor their gods out of fear.

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Both Krishna's are "God like" and unattainable.
Both of the cultures personified their God's which is also similar to Rome and especially Greek lit.
Both Lakshmi and Arjuna struggle to defy symbols of authority which shows that they have a very strong hierarchy in their societies.

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1)Both stories deal heavily with culture and society.

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1)Both stories deal heavily with culture and society.

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2)Both provide some sense of resolution.
3)Integral parts of both stories happen at night.

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1) Both cultures worshiped and revered personified forces of nature, such as the night in The Rig Veda, or life and death in Sold.
2) In both cultures, the people all fear and revere death. Lakshmi's family worshiped the goddess Lakshmi, and the Aryan people worshiped the night.
3) Both religions and cultures aimed to achieve some sort of spiritual goals.

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2)Both revolve around believing in Gods.
3)Krishna in The Bhagavad Gita plays a double role in the epic; Krishna serves as almost like two roles as Lakshmi's future husband, and as a poor boy in the village.

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1) Both deal with their society
2) Both worship the forces of nature
3) Nomads didn't have permanent homes, and Lakshmi, from sold,
got taken away from her home as well.

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1.) They each involve India
2.) There is personification in each story
3.) All are overcoming something significant

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2.) Mentions Krishna in both Bhagavad-Gita and Sold
3.) Sold is written in vignettes, Night is a hymn, and The Bhagavad-Gita is an epic.

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1) Each story is enriched deeply in culture.

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1) Each story is enriched deeply in culture.

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2) The stories, have elements of family life: Sold has Lakshmi and here family, Rig Veda features the families in the village, and Bhagavad-Gita is between two brothers.
3) The three stories are affected by religion, for Sold the religion affects the social view of women, Rig Veda was about the goddess Night, and Bhagavad-Gita is about a brother refusing to fight and in the end becoming enlighten.

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1. Bringing shame is worse than death.
2. Both have a conflict between what they want vs. what they have to do.
3. Both were scared for what they were about to do.