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Item The Female Predicament in McCormick's Sold(Faculty of English, 2019) Baral, SubidhaPatricia McCormick's Sold is a heart-rending story of main character Lakshmi. She has written this novel on the basis of her own research on Nepali girls' trafficking to brothels in India for sexual slavery. This thesis depicts the female issues as reflected in the novel. The novel has been studied by taking the theoretical support of feminism. Lakshmi, the protagonist of this novel, is from uneducated society where females are taken as animals. So, her father sees her of no value at home and to sell her. The novel shows the female predicament represented by the character Lakshmi. While Lakshmi is in Nepal, she is suppressed due to patriarchal framework. Similarly, when she is sold in Happiness House she is extremely exploited from many male customers. This thesis also shows Lakshmi's struggle to get rid from the brothel. Her strong instinct to come out from there makes her believe in Americans though they are taken as liars by every girl in from the brothel with their help. However, she believes in Americans, and gets liberated. It shows the condition of females who need others' help to raise their voice. Thus, the thesis explores the exploitation and domination of a females directly and indirectly in patriarchal society.Item Page to Screen: A Comparative Study of Patricia McCormick’s Sold and its Adaptation in Film(Central Department of English, 2018) Bartaula, SamikshyaThis research work examines interrelationship between Particia McCormick‘s Sold and its cinematic adaptation. While a novel is a written work of art designed for reading, a film is a visual and aural art to watch. However, they share a number of elements like character, narrative, setting, plot, and so forth: this research work investigates why stories are broughtfrom page to screen. It examines how it preserves the peculiar properties of novel and how it is possible to convert a long novel into a short film. The novel Sold and its adaptation stand as unique works of art despite their common narrative structures. The issue of novel is girls trafficking where its cinematic adaptation also carries the same issue that is why main spirit of novel has not been distorted in the film but to make commercial, the director modified some characters, scenes, events etc. Finally, this research shows value of film adaptation, which is easy medium to deliver knowledge in society. Keywords:Adaptation, Motion picture, Art, Faithfulness, Girls traffickingItem Postmodern Metafiction: A Study of McCormick’s Sold(Faculty of English, 2012) Gorathoki, ShreedharPatricia McCormick’s Sold is a story of Lakshmi,a poor girl from rural Nepal, in the form of a series of vignettes weaved on the basis of her own research on Nepali girls trafficking and selling of girls to brothels in India for sexual slavery.Poverty- stricken Nepali girl Laksmi is sold to the brothel in Calcutta where she suffered a lot due to the intolerable extreme sexual exploitation of customers in the brothel. McCormick has weaved the story of Lakshmi on the basis of her own research in the form of a number of vignettes in order to show Lakshmi’s fragmented life story. Therefore, it is a blending of fact and fiction and hence a metafiction. Sold has postmodern metafictional tenets:self-reflexivity and circularity of narrative, intertexuality and in disciplinarity of text, interaction between fact and fiction,and indeterminacy of meaning and open-endedness to the story.McCormick has written Sold in the form of postmodern metafiction in order to show the fragmented life story of Lakshmi due to patriarchal, poverty-stricken,and utilitarian society of rural Nepal as well as document the pathetic story of sexual violation of Nepali poor innocent girls and to give voice to the suffered ones who are sold in brothels of foreign countries for sex workers.In this way,McCormick’s Soldis a postmodern metafiction.Item A Study on Socio-Economic Causes and impact of Girls/Women Trafficking in Makawanpur District(Department of Sociology, 2011) Pande, SumitraNot available