Younus Fazal
The book”Sold” is one of the inspiring books which is based on a real life story of girl “Zana Muhsen” who was really in sensitive living with her sister “ Nadia” whom husbands were similar in their lives. However, the book is a novel that opens one’s eyes and tells a terrible story of two slave siblings that is really survive in modern world. The book, sold, is written by Zana Muhsen with Andrew Crofts that contains 229 pages and published in 1991. Zana Muhsen, who was a school girl, was seven years old and was really happy with her sister Nadia with whom she played everyday after they came home from school were living with their due respected parents in Birmingham. After the completion of their primary section, they were given a six week holiday before their secondary schooling started. Their father thought of a foolish that he wanted to sell his both daughters in Yemen. He has created an excuse and told his daughters to have a visit with their relatives in Yemen. However, Zana Muhsen was taken in Yemen from Birmingham with a stranger to her who wanted Zana Muhsen to marry his son Abdullah. Zana faced a bundle of difficulties after the completion the destination from Birmingham to Yemen due to broken ways and shabby cars. When they reached Yemen, Zana felt tired and stressed because, it was a really sensitive weather for her in Yemen. The weather was hot and windy. Therefore, she did not bear the weather living in Yemen. She was respected for three days and no-one asked her for house-works and she was respected and honoured. A week pasted, a man came, who was out the Yemen, called Abdullah. Zana Muhsen was in her room when Abdullah with his family entered her room and sat near Zana Muhsen. Abdullah’s father asked Zana Muhsen if she was welling to marry his son Abdullah, then she became shocked and refused to marry his son, since she did not want to marry Abdullah and she was told just for a week holiday she would stay with her relatives in Yemen then they asked her to marry Abdullah. Therefore, she was pressurised. The next night, Abdullah with his parents entered Zana’s room and Abdullah’s father told her Abdullah was her husband and asked her that she had to stay with Abdullah in that night but Zana Muhsen did not share her bed with Abdullah that night. Again and again Zana Muhsen was forced to share her bed with Abdullah and she was compelled to sleep with Abdullah. After some days, Nadia, Zana’s sister, was taken from Birmingham to Yemen by a stranger to her who wanted Nadia to marry his son Mohammad. Nadia faced difficulties on her journey from Birmingham to Yemen as her sister Zana faced. Nadia was forced to marry Mohammad. The both siblings worked as slaves and brought water from far places on their heads and worked in fields down to dusk. After some days, Zana Muhsen started writing letters her mother and wanted to tell her mother that they were sold by their father and forced to marry in Yemen and they would not come without her helps. Their mother started working on the issue and wanted her daughters to be backed in Birmingham. Zana Muhsen worked hard with her mother sent letters to the governments of both countries on the sensitive issue. She wanted to make everyone aware about their problems. Days passed, the both sisters had children in Yemen. Zana Muhsen had one child while Nadia had two children in Yemen. Zana did not give up she standed enthusiastically and worked here and there in order to leave Yemen with her sister Nadia ,but it was unfortunate for Nadia , because she was still in Yemen with bundle of works everyday while Zana Muhsen left Yemen and went to Brimigham with a lot of difficulties and hardships and started working for her sister Nadia for coming back to Brimigham. It is really important to read this book that opens one’s eyes and tells the slavery of little aged girls which is really survive in every corner of the world. The book tells not to be cruel with females who have their own dreams and goals for living in the world. However, it presents that most of the parents are running behind money and selling their loved daughters in the name of money, they do not think about their lives as Zana’s father sold his loved daughters in Yemen where they worked as slaves instead of living with dreams and goals. Secondly, it this effective novel directly expresses the importance of never giving up. Never giving up is the foundation of drastic accomplishments. I really suggest every reader for reading this book which gives countless information about the modren slavery of little aged girls who are really pressurised by their parents and they die before their deaths. The one who wants to gain something important about the slavery of little aged girls then the book tells you what you want to know. It suggests that be kind to your little aged girls.
