Are you in it to End It?

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Sold is written in prose, therefore it is short and concise rather than lengthy and detailed. The story is told with vignettes or verbal sketches. The reader must critically think to understand everything that is taking place in a vignette, for they are often short and carefully crafted. 

This novel is interesting; it displays how different life can be in other countries, such as India and Nepal.  Sold introduces certain roles of women in other cultures. The book also entails violence, language, and sexual abuse that may be alarming for a young adolescent reader.  Personally, I would save this one for my 11-12th grade students, or advanced 10th graders.  The novel was an intense page-turner by always keeping the reader guessing what could happen next. 




"There is another way to use a shawl, she says.  I cannot tell... if she is being kind or cruel.  That new girl, the one in your old room, she says.  Yesterday morning Mumtaz found her hanging from the rafters” (McCormick 143).  This is a direct reference to the fact that some people just could never take the sort of hell these girls have endured.  Many of the women throughout the story just gave up and went along with everything, or decided it wasn't worth trying to even live. This quote foreshadows the danger up ahead, either from the diseases they can contract, or simply not being able to take the torture of being a sex slave.

“Born out of the belief that even one person trapped in slavery is too many, #ENDITMOVEMENT is a coalition of the leading organizations in the world in the fight for freedom.  Each of our amazing coalition partners are doing the work, on the ground, every day, to bring awareness prevention, rescue, and restoration. Joined by students and Senators, Nonprofits and Fortune 500s,# END IT is each of us standing for what's right until the number of men, women, and children suffering in silence moves from 40 million, to ZERO.”   

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  1. Mikayla TaylorOctober 5, 2020 at 8:47 AM

    I love how you included the links the "End It Movement." I think that this novel is really important because it does address the difficult topic of human trafficking and sexual abuse. I think that it is important that we work to help end human trafficking.

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