Claire LanahanEnglish 11 Honors 1BDue 12514
Claire Lanahan English 11 Honors 1B
Due 12/5/14 Nonfiction
The nonfiction novel, Lucky, written by Alice Sebold, is a memoir of a life changing and detailed experience of the author’s violent rape and its aftermath. Alice survives a brutal attack and learns that life is about survival. Entering college for the first time in her life, not having a strong relationship with her parents and just a few friends to confide in; the assault only creates her emotional health to spiral downwards. Alice slowly progresses and responds to her traumatic incident while surrounded by perplexed people. A young Alice Sebold, just 18 years old, was finishing her freshman year at Syracuse University when her life became utterly transformed. She was walking through a park near campus late one night when she was threatened with a knife, brutally beaten, verbally insulted, dragged amongst dead leaves and broken beer bottles, and viciously raped. Alice fought back to the best of her ability until she locked eyes with her rapist and realized that he now held her life in his hands. The thought of death throbbed through her head and she began to believe that this would be her last night. Ironically, once Alice’s rapist was finished, helped her put her clothes back on and repeatedly pleaded how sorry he was. Alice, whose mind and body was now numb, went along with whatever act he was putting on because she was only focused on saving her life. Then he leaves Alice as if what he just had done was nothing out of the ordinary. When Alice tells her story to the police, she was informed about another case of a young lady who was murdered and dismembered at the exact location of her rape. Alice, a rape victim, was said to be lucky. Hoping to hear assuring words or a guarantee that her rapist will soon be caught; Alice is compared to a dead girl. In no way, shape, or form was Alice feeling any type of luck after what she had gone through.
With futile input from the
Due 12/5/14 Nonfiction
The nonfiction novel, Lucky, written by Alice Sebold, is a memoir of a life changing and detailed experience of the author’s violent rape and its aftermath. Alice survives a brutal attack and learns that life is about survival. Entering college for the first time in her life, not having a strong relationship with her parents and just a few friends to confide in; the assault only creates her emotional health to spiral downwards. Alice slowly progresses and responds to her traumatic incident while surrounded by perplexed people. A young Alice Sebold, just 18 years old, was finishing her freshman year at Syracuse University when her life became utterly transformed. She was walking through a park near campus late one night when she was threatened with a knife, brutally beaten, verbally insulted, dragged amongst dead leaves and broken beer bottles, and viciously raped. Alice fought back to the best of her ability until she locked eyes with her rapist and realized that he now held her life in his hands. The thought of death throbbed through her head and she began to believe that this would be her last night. Ironically, once Alice’s rapist was finished, helped her put her clothes back on and repeatedly pleaded how sorry he was. Alice, whose mind and body was now numb, went along with whatever act he was putting on because she was only focused on saving her life. Then he leaves Alice as if what he just had done was nothing out of the ordinary. When Alice tells her story to the police, she was informed about another case of a young lady who was murdered and dismembered at the exact location of her rape. Alice, a rape victim, was said to be lucky. Hoping to hear assuring words or a guarantee that her rapist will soon be caught; Alice is compared to a dead girl. In no way, shape, or form was Alice feeling any type of luck after what she had gone through.
With futile input from the