Thursday, March 13, 2014
Rick Miles post 2 mind control
The people running the brothel use a wide variety of ways to manipulate Lakshmi into doing what they want, one of those being mind control. When she is first assigned to do whatever a man asked she was very very confused and when she found out what it was he wanted to do, she ran away in fear. To try to convince her the runner of the brothel beat her, starved her, imprisoned her, and ultimately had to sedate her in order for her to let the men abuse her like they did. While Mumtaz is starving Lakshmi so that she will submit to the men Lakshmi says this, "After five days of no food and water I don't even dream," (113). Throughout this third of the book it is made obvious that Lakshmi does not understand what these men are doing, but she can feel the shame and dishonor that come with it. Lakshmi is resilient in standing up to these men and to Mumtaz, but they are not afraid to make sure that Lakshmi knows who is in charge. Mumtaz and others at the brothel will do anything to control Lakshmi into submitting to these men to turn a minimal profit.
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I liked this blog because it got wright to the point. It talks about how she refused to do what the man wants at first but then they locked her up and didn't feed her for five days. I was wondering if you don't eat for along time how will it effect your mind. she said she stopped dreaming. But what else happens??? According to yahoo answers it is hard to even go to sleep in the first place, it also slows down your metabolism so if you do get food then it will be easier to get gain weight.
ReplyDeleteBoth Amy and Rick pointed out very interesting points in their posts. Branching off of what Rick was saying Lakshmi has been dealing with mind control not only in the way that Mumtaz forces her to give into the men but also that it has kept her alive. It takes mind control to be raped, beaten, starved, and disrespected everyday and still have hope that you will one day wrap your arms around your family. Without this power Lakshmi easily could have committed suicide how a new girl hung herself just a few days after being brought to the brothel. Based off of information given by the Domestic Sex Trafficking and Prostitution in the United States Fact Sheet 63% of women or girls prostitutes hurt themselves or have tried to commit suicide. For Lakshmi to not be part of that large percentage is not luck, it required mind control.
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