Lucky Pgs. 5-34

Summary: Lucky by Alice sebold, is about a young woman that gets raped. This memoir reflects the life of Alice Sebold, the author of the best-selling novel, The Lovely Bones. In the first section of this memoir, Alice introduces the readers to her freshmen in college lifestyle and relives the tragic night of her rape. The rape took place in a tunnel, near her college campus, around Pennsylvania, and it had a big impact on her life. After her rape, Alice felt different as a person; changing her whole perspective on life, making each page of the memoir more interesting to read. (Sebold, pgs. 5-29).
Quote: "My girlfriends and the resident adviser, who, after all, was only nineteen, tried to take care of me, but I had begun to notice that i was now on the other side of something they could not understand. i didn't understand it myself."(Sebold, Pg. 27)
Reaction: This quotation applies to the overall concept of the story, by putting the main character, Alice on a different page from everyone else. Nobody was able to understand anything that Alice is dealing with because they was not and could not be put in her shoes. Alice already feels like she is on the outside looking in, and by her not understanding it, the feeling is only going to become worst. Alice is a very mature writer, enabling the readers to know exactly how she felt at that point in time. She doesn't just say what she wants the readers to know, she implies, which allows readers to actually think about the things she writes. She has a way of connecting with the readers, making her chapters page turners. Alice doesn't use a lot of metaphors, similes, or alliteration, and I think it's only because she wants her audience to be intrigued, as well as serious. So far, Alice has caught my attention, and i can't wait to read more.