Sold (A Tin Roof - Confession)

In these chapters you really get to see that Lakshmi is a very responsible young girl, and you get to know her. Although her lifestyle is much different than that of an American girl, you can tell that she is just like us. In the beginning, she speaks about the luxury of a tin roof. Her friend had went to the city to work and now their family had a tin roof. I thought that this sort of paralleled to what American girls want. Today in America people, girls want i-pods, clothes, jewelry, computers, etc. The difference is that they are not the ones who have to work for it. Often it is their parents who will have to do extra work in order to support demands. When Lakshmi speaks about her step-dad, you can tell that he only cares about himself and his own happiness, and he is bringing the family down. You can tell that Lakshmi doesn't really like her father, but as a child and a girl, she has no power to help. Lakshmi was very blessed and was able to go to school. She was a very good student, and she loved to learn. Her mother wanted her to receive an education and to be able to have a better life than what they were living now. Lakshmi admires her mother and the struggles that she goes through to keep their family running. She describes her mothers back as the place where all of their troubles rest. I think that this is sad. Obviously Ama is giving more than she has. I can't imagine being in her place. Life on the mountain seems terribly hard, and I think she has more to deal with than most because of her husband. I admire her strength, and I believe that despite what her culture believes, she is definitely worth more than her husband. I also think that Lakshmi has a lot to deal with. She can see the troubles and burdens her mother has to deal with. She sees how her father is spoiling and wasting everything that her mother works so hard for. She is still a child, and she cannot really do much to help out. On top of all of this, her best friend has moved to the city to work. Whenever she confesses that she names her cucumbers, I think that she does it to cope what is going on in her life. The cucumbers are something that she can control. If she takes care of them, they will thrive, but if she neglects them, they will die. She doesn't have to worry about someone else spoiling them for her. I also think the cucumbers are filling in the holes people have left behind in Lakshmi's heart.