Sold Analysis Questions (to be completed after the quiz) 1.) How does the narrator’s age and point of view impact the mood of the story? (Mood is the feeling the audience experiences as they read.) 2.) What is Lakshmi’s tone throughout her diary entries? How does her character change? (Tone is the speaker’s feelings.) 3.) How does the diary entry format affect the overall theme of the book? Why write the story like this? What is the author emphasizing? 4.) Choose one of the Sold diary entries and explain how the writer develops empathy in that entry. What techniques does the writer use that makes that entry so heartbreaking? (Empathy – getting you to feel what the person suffering is feeling.) 5.) Choose one of the three other articles about human trafficking included in the packet. Read it with your partner, and then explain how this article both parallels and contrasts the Sold passages.