Students in Mr. Graham's Fall '09 class can click on the comment button below to share thoughts about their “End-of-Childhood” Independent Reading Project books. Make sure you include your first name and last initial, as well as the period you are in Mr. Graham's class.
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So far, I really like this book. I feel bad for Lakshmi because she made so many sacrifices for her family and their future. I also feel bad for her because her own father has left her in the dark and got her thinking that she is going to be working as a maid in the city. One of the things I like about this book is the way the author describes the setting. I can only imagine how it would feel to go to an unknown place only to find out that you have been sold into prostitution. I don’t like the way mumtaz treats her and how mumtaz doubled the price of what lakshmi really owes her. That was really unfair.
One thing I found troubling and didn’t understand was that in the book was that all the girls wanted to have children, and yet they wanted to get out of the happiness house. I don’t understand this because if they have children, then mumtaz will never let them leave. The cost of the babies’ clothes, food, medicine, and all that would be way too much to pay off when you only get payed 30 rupees. It makes me really feel sad for lakshmi when she thinks about home because I would feel really sad if I had to leave home for a long time and didn’t know if I would be going back.
I really feel bad for Pushpa because she is seriously ill and Mumtaz won’t keep her in the happiness house and she has two kids to support. I also feel bad for Anita because she felt like she got betrayed by the people who were supposed to help her and she ended up getting beat really bad. I thinks the David Beckham boy is really nice because he starts to teach lakshmi English and hindi. shahanna is also very nice for giving lakshmi advice and for helping her. I hope Lakshmi gets out of the happiness house and back to her family. I feel sad for her.
In the book Sold, Lakshmi the main character lives in a small village were her dad is a gambler. He gambles away money, cloths and land. The roof on their house is terrible the don’t even have enough money to by a tin roof. She then meets a woman that says she can live in the big city. she doesn't think much of it then but later she wants tohelp her family.i for one feel bad for her and her family.
one thing i can't understand is why they lied to Lakshmi and her family. she had no reason to have to and i just think that its wrong of "uncle" husband and Auntie tolie to her. the lie to her familt and Lakshmi is very scared of almost every person she comes in contact with. Anther way to put it is she is doesn;t know what is ghoing on. Everything is clared up though and she would have been happier to not know. She was sold into prostitution!
ENTRY #1
in the begining of the book it was good i really liked it a lot. i think lakshmi is also a god teacher because she self sacrifices a lot and even to her good-for-nothing step father. i also feel sorry for lakshmi's mother because she has to go without food to feed the baby and has to respect and obey her husband even though he gambles away all of their earnings.
ENTRY #2
the book gets better and better as i read on. i agree with aditi the author does describe the setting really well she also describes the pain and hardship lakshmi goes through when she gets to "happiness house". in my opinion lakshmi was better off on the hill because at least there she could be with her family and help her mother and know that shes helping instead of working for a wanna be 'pimp' who cheats her of out of her money that is supposed to be going to her family.
ENTRY #3
i think it is good that shahanna became lakshmi's friend because i think it proves that not all people are bad. i think it was cool of shahanna to teach lakshmi about happiness house though she still could have told her that she was working in a prostitution house, before she went into the room with the fish lipped man, but she is still a good person.
ENTRY #4
i dont like mumtaz because she is a liar and a deciever. she is a liar because she told lakshmi she owed her double of what she paid for her. she is a deciever because she pretended to add and subtract numbers to tell lakshmi when she will get to leave happiness house to go home. shilpa isn't so bad she's just a drunk. i still really like the book very much.
ENTRY #5
i am very happy that lakshmi had finally trusted the americans to come and save her. i wish she would have trusted the first american that came because she and shahanna could go to the clean place together. the book was really good i liked it a lot.
When she got sold into prostitution she first didn’t understand. Then when she tried to leave Mumtaz shaved her head. This shows that Lakshmi has been disgraced. Lakshmi and Mumtaz are not good.i feel really bad for her and the fact that she is one of the prostitutes know. shahanna is also the only one that will talk to her.
Lakshmi refused to be the prostitute so Mumtaz druged her with a cup of Lassi. for a week or so she had know food, water or light. when shahanna teaches lakshmi about happiness house i think it is really nice of her. Also i think that its right of Lakshmi to hold on for her family.
i think that lakshmi was right to trust the american. she and all the others in my opion the girls should all leave the happieness house. the saddiest part is that there all to scared.
in the last parts i was supprised that the author decided that shahanna,lakshmi's best friend, get taken be the police. which isn't that good. but she finally gets a brake when the american come back with the good policeman and she leaves the happieness house.
I think the end of lakshmi’s child hood was during her very first twilight. Not only did she realize what is happening to her but now she realized what the world is really like. I think it is kind of creepy that she has to tell older men that she is twelve years old. And also the fact that she is only worth thirty rupees. I feel bad for her when she thinks about home and she pretends that she is in class again. I feel bad for monica because even when she was let out of the house, back home she was shunned.
I think it was nice of Harish to give her a pencil and it was nice of Lakshmi to make him a ball. It was really mean of Mumtaz to kick out pushpa and ask for her daughter. Now lakshmi has no one to be with. Even though Monica acts really mature, she is still like a little girl. For example, she sleeps with a rag doll because it comforts her. I think that when the American man came to speak to her, she should have said something. It was also very rude of her to be thinking bad things about a person that just wanted to help her .
I think it was nice of Harish to give her a pencil and it was nice of Lakshmi to make him a ball. It was really mean of Mumtaz to kick out pushpa and ask for her daughter. Now lakshmi has no one to be with. Even though Monica acts really mature, she is still like a little girl. For example, she sleeps with a rag doll because it comforts her. I think that when the American man came to speak to her, she should have said something. It was also very rude of her to be thinking bad things about a person that just wanted to help her .
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