Sold - September 8

Pages read - 56

So far in the this book, there has been tons of imagery, from the setting to characters to clothing. In the book the author writes, "A thousand stars have fallen to earth. That, at least is how it looks to me as I sit outside our hut and look down the mountainside at all of the houses below." This piece of imagery really stood out to me because not only is it something that creates a picture but it is also figurative language because it is comparing thousands of stars to lanterns outside of people's huts. I think that this piece of evidence is very positive, this because in the book Lakshmi, never really is happy and never really gets to enjoy things, so the way that she talked about this view added a comforting tone to the story.

In Sold, I feel like the author uses a lot of figurative language to build up on character development. In the text, the main little girl, Lakshmi is at her town's festival to welcome the god Lakshmi, who she was named after, and a lady to which she refers to as a "city woman" talks to her. Now this creates character development because in the text Lakshmi keeps on saying "it seems to be talking to me." This shows that Lakshmi isn't used to talking to people outside of the town, which then comes to give a glimpse that she lives in a very poor neighborhood.

I haven't gotten to the part in the book where Lakshmi is actually sold into prostitution and there really hasn't been foreshadowing to that. I think that the author first wants to show the life that she had before, to create an image for the reader to then compare what we say was a bad life before she was sold to when she was actually sold. The author does an interesting thing to the chapters, for every different topic, she doesn't make paragraphs, she actually just makes separate chapters, so one chapter has been two sentences long. I feel like she does this to emphasize more on every detail and to make sure that the reader has a clear picture about what she's talking about.