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    A Study Guide for Patricia McCormick's "Sold"
    A Study Guide for Patricia McCormick's "Sold"
    A Study Guide for Patricia McCormick's "Sold"
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    A Study Guide for Patricia McCormick's "Sold"

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    A Study Guide for Patricia McCormick's "Sold," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Newsmakers for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Newsmakers for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 20, 2016
    ISBN9781535833516
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      Sold

      Patricia McCormick

      2006

      Introduction

      Sold (2006) is Patricia McCormick's third novel for young adult readers and the winner of a 2007 Quill Award. Focusing on the life of Lakshmi, a young girl from a mountain village in Nepal who is sold into prostitution in India, the book is a powerful statement about the sex trade and one girl's ability to survive desperate circumstances. Written in a series of almost poetic vignettes, Sold relays the confusion and immediacy of Lakshmi's situation and of her ultimate decision to allow herself to be rescued.

      McCormick was inspired to write Sold after meeting a young photographer who had been working undercover to document young girls working in Indian brothels. The author then spent about a month in Nepal and India researching the book, talking with girls who had been forced to work as prostitutes. She learned of the horrible abuse they suffered, how they were kicked out of brothels when too sick to work, and the plight of children born there. As McCormick relayed in her novel, even if the girls somehow get out of the brothel, they are nearly always rejected by their families, if they can find them again.

      While the trip gave her the information McCormick needed for the book, the experience and the girls' often wretched lives left her depressed, full of despair, and unable to write for weeks. Getting past the darkness, she eventually completed the text of Sold, which was widely acclaimed when it was published. McCormick hoped the novel would inspire its young readers to take action themselves.

      As McCormick wrote in Amnesty International's online newsletter in 2006, I want the book to make activists out of those who read it. Fiction…is in my view, one of the best ways to mobilize people. It asks questions of you in a way that headlines and soundbites don't. (When you understand that a human being can be bought for as little as three hundred dollars, you look at your Ipod in a whole new way.)

      Author Biography

      Patricia McCormick was born May 23, 1956, in Washington, D.C., the daughter of A.J. and Ann McCormick. Raised in suburbia, she eventually earned her bachelor's degree from Rosemont College in 1978, then a master's degree at Columbia University in 1985. McCormick pursued a career as a journalist, working as a crime reporter for New Brunswick, New Jersey's I Home News. She later wrote entertainment columns and childrens' movie reviews for the New York Times and was childrens' movie reviewer and contributing editor to Parents magazine for eight years.

      After leaving Parents in 1992, McCormick became a freelance writer, contributing to publications such as the New York Times Book Review and Ladies' Home Journal. She also began developing her skills as a novelist. McCormick wrote a historical novel for young readers about the Underground Railroad, but it was rejected for

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