Sold part 2: Sara Elsea!

Lakshmi at the age of thirteen has always lived in poverty and she knows how to deal with only having little to nothing. Her new "Happiness house" that she was put into after her stepfather sold her to her new fat Auntie named Mumtaz and stays there with other girls of all ages. But Lakshmi soon realizes this is not a very happy place to live and thinks that this is all one big mistake and that shes suppose to be at some rich city women's house as a maid. But she doesn't say anything and will do anything to help her mom get back her gold earrings and to pay off the 10,000 rupees that she was sold with. Mumtaz puts her in a room where she is locked up in  until men come and go as they please to have sex with her. But she doesn't realize it until it's to late and she has her first in counter with an old man. Mumtaz explains to her that she has to do what she says because she belongs to Mumtaz now and then lies to Lakshim by saying that she must pay off the 20,000 rupees that Mumtaz used to pay for her. Lakshim knows that's a lie and doesn't say anything back. After what fell like months go by she no longer puts up with Mumtaz request so Mumtaz gets so mad that she tells Lakshmi that she will starve her until she decides to be with men. "I also know how to swallow your spit and pretend that it is soup..... And how to tie your waist cloth so tight that, at least for a few hours, you can fool your belly into thinking its full." (111) Lakshmi is trying every way possibly to just get though this without having random men come in her room. This is her way of survival. She wants to survive without doing the deeds that Mumtaz wants her to do. Shes trying every way possibly. She think that she has tricked Mumtaz because Mumtaz thinks she will eventually get so hungery and thirsty that she will have to give in. But Lakshmi has been put in these situations before and knows exactly what to do.