Sold by Leslie Lagos https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj unforgettable accounts of suffering en-us 2017-05-01 13:30:20 UTC 2025-12-02 00:56:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Brightnessdown.png The woman in the yellow dress comes and wants to buy Lakshmi llagos0529 https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169161779 2017-05-01 13:30:45 UTC https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169161779 Stepfather llagos0529 https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169162496 ~Ama second husband 
lazy 
~Sees no value in Lakshmi 
~Spend his time at the tea-shop talk to old men 
~Spends the family's money on selfish stuff for him self]]> 2017-05-01 13:33:06 UTC https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169162496 Ama llagos0529 https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169162581 ~Lakshmi mother 
~Typical house wife in the village 
~"Her crow-black hair braided with bits of red rag and beads, her cinnamon skin, and her ears hung with joyful noise of tinkling gold..." (McCormick 7) ]]> 2017-05-01 13:33:25 UTC https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169162581 Lakshmi llagos0529 https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169162818 ~13 years old 
~narrator 
~She is sold into sex slavery by her stepfather ]]> 2017-05-01 13:34:16 UTC https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169162818 stepfather sells Lakshmi for 5 hundred dollars llagos0529 https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169164048 2017-05-01 13:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169164048 Setting llagos0529 https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169413274 ~India 
~Small hut in the mountains in Nepal ]]> 2017-05-02 13:29:35 UTC https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169413274 llagos0529 https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169665728 2017-05-03 13:15:55 UTC https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169665728 She crosses the border with her "uncle husband" llagos0529 https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169669847 2017-05-03 13:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169669847 Lakshmi crosses the broader and ends up in India all excited but realizes it not what she was expecting llagos0529 https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169669998 2017-05-03 13:31:27 UTC https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169669998 Lakshmi leaves her small village to go off to the big city with the women in the yellow dress also know as "aunt" llagos0529 https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169806043 2017-05-03 22:08:12 UTC https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169806043 Off to the city llagos0529 https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169806471 And she off. Lahshmi leaves with her "aunt". Stepfather sold her. She runs and walks for miles and miles. She exhausted but she ready to reach the finish line. Which in her case is the happienes house. Finally reached the finish line and she did put up a fight. Her feet are covered with blisters,cuts, and bruises. Feet all dirty from walking/running bare foot for miles.]]> 2017-05-03 22:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169806471 Work cited llagos0529 https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169923204 ~McCormick, Patricia. Sold. Los Angeles: Hyperion, 2015. Print.
~Photo if India- http://www.operationworld.org/files/ow/maps/lgmap/indi-MMAP-md.png
~Photo of mountain in Nepal- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Travel/leadAssets/35/50/nepal-village_3550720a-large.jpg]]> 2017-05-04 13:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/llagos0529/450eker7m3pj/wish/169923204