https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz Noah Manzella en-us 2017-10-13 16:02:42 UTC 2023-06-04 12:58:01 UTC hello@padlet.com noah_manzella https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/196878594 The setting of Sold is South Asia. 
The book initially starts out high up in the mountains of Nepal and as Lakshmi is human trafficked she leaves Nepal and is moved around southern Asia. The setting is important because it is in a place where poverty is common and people don’t have much money. This is what causes Lakshmi to go into human trafficking. 
“At dawn in Nepal, our hut, perched high on the mountainside, is already torched with sunlight.”]]> 2017-10-13 16:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/196878594 noah_manzella https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/200188381 In this book the antagonist is her stepfather. Lakshmi's stepfather is the one who initially put her into the human trafficking line. He gave her to people for money and she was sexually assaulted multiple times because of it. Her step father is her antagonist. She was put in a home with other young girls and was a prostitute as well as these other girls. This was what she was going to do for a long time until she paid off her "debt". "You must stay in school, no matter what your stepfather says." another quote is "A tin roof means that the family has a father who doesn't gamble away the landlord's money playing cards in the tea shop."]]> 2017-10-24 19:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/200188381 noah_manzella https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/200190307 Lakshmi a young 12 year old nepalese girl who had a pet goat. Her family was poor and couldn't afford many things which is why Lakshmi wanted to work as a maid for a wealthy family who soon after arriving at the house realized she wasn't going to be cleaning. "I look down at my red-painted nails and my new shoes. Something is not right here. I don't know what is going on, but it is not right, not right at all."
This is when she starts to realize the type of work she will do.]]> 2017-10-24 20:02:05 UTC https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/200190307 noah_manzella https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/200193361 The theme of the book Sold is gender. At the beginning of Sold, Ama explains to Lakshmi that women are meant to suffer for life and that's what you see during the book. Even though they have a lower social status, you see women like Mumtaz, Auntie Bimla, and Bajai Sita who want power whatever way possible, even though that power makes them disrespect, or harm other women harshly. And the roles of men are also complicated. There are men who sell Lakshmi to new buyers and don't help her, but there are also men and boys who are kind, who teach her, and who end up helping her escape slavery. So for both genders, it's hard to say whether they are good or evil. "Ama says we are lucky to have a man at all. I am to honor and praise him, respect and thank him for taking us in after my father died." We see why it's important to a man in the household. Even though Ama and Lakshmi are definitely better off without the stepfather as we can tell because he never does any work and gambles away their money, but having a man is socially better for them than having no man at all so they keep him in the household.]]> 2017-10-24 20:12:58 UTC https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/200193361 noah_manzella https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/200196589 2017-10-24 20:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/200196589 noah_manzella https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/200197281 2017-10-24 20:27:18 UTC https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/200197281 noah_manzella https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/200349954 2017-10-25 12:01:29 UTC https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/200349954 noah_manzella https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/200354600 2017-10-25 12:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/noah_manzella/p1pqvetpptsz/wish/200354600