Second Post- Sold

Lakshmi grew up in a village where the women were all very modest with what they said and wore. Being in a brothel turned her world upside down, in more than one way. She is ripped from her mother and put down in a place where modesty was no longer relevant. She learns that modesty is something that earns punishment and is looked down upon. When she first sees the other girls in the brothel, she feels pity for them that they have no modesty to show so much of themselves. When she becomes one of them, she feels shame like she has never felt before. She would give anything to be back in her village where she can wear her own clothes, be with her friends and go to school. "... sometimes I find myself hating him. I hate him for having schoolbooks and playmates. For having a mother who combs his hair in the mornings..." (p. 151) Lakshmi begins to watch the small son of one of the sex slaves, and has very mixed feelings about him. She wants to be friends with him and know him, but she also hates him and wants to never see him. She hates him for living a relatively normal life and having a mother who still looks after him and cares for him. She would give anything to be back in her old life, where she doesn't have to face the unbelievable shame she has to face every day in the brothel.