Lucky Response

It is apparent that Alice has different relationships with the different people in her life. The way she handles and deals with her rape around them is also very different. When she is first raped her immediate reaction is to not tell her mother. She tries to think of ways to hide it from her, but in the end she does tell her over he phone. Later on in the story a conversation over lunch she takes a different tone with her father. He asks if she would like something to eat and she responds by saying “That would be nice.” “considering the only thing I’ve had in my mouth in the last twenty-four hours is a cracker and a cock.” I can’t imagine that someone would react like this, but as the author states this is normal for her. To her and her family it shows that she is still the person she has always been even after the trauma and hardship of being raped. Later she sees a boy named Tom. Alice thinks that no boy will ever love her because she has been raped. Her family tries to tell her otherwise, but she does not agree with them. When she sits down with the boy at first he is very nice and understanding. She does not know that he knows anything her happened to her until they begin talking. It is then that she finds out that he has been told a lie. He thinks that she was beaten and robbed in the park. She then tells him the truth, that she had been raped. Their conversation turned awkward, as he did not know what to say. He began to move away every so slightly as to not make it obvious. He was at a loss for words and her feelings about how men will think of her were at least for now, confirmed.

Lucky

The first chapters of Lucky are chilling, yet compelling to the reader. The author gives a first hand account of the night she was raped near the campus where she went to college at the time. Some of the details were hard to read. I would guess that someone who has been through a similar experience would find these description all the more chilling and difficult to read. She describes in detail what the man made her do and what was going through her mind at the time. It was hard to read and I found myself stopping at points because of the sad details of what had happened to this woman. While it was hard to read, it was also very compelling. I felt for her and could not imagine going through what she had gone through. I wonder why she chose to begin with the rape, and then backtrack to her childhood in the third chapter? I think it was effective, but also could have been done differently if she had provided some background about herself before she details being raped. I think that as I read on, this reasoning will be clearer to me.

Non-fiction

I think that non-fiction is something based on a real life event, person, thing, etc. It can range from an autobiography to a true tale of a team or the retelling of an event in history. It must be based on facts and real life occurances, and not have fictonal charecters, events, etc. Basically any story that is told with facts and real events that have happened can be considered non-fiction.