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.