Lucky pgs. 159-232

Summary: In these chapters (11-13), Alice is experiencing a lot of things within her life. So far, Alice had been sexually abused by an African American stranger, around her college dorm, during her freshman year. Along with this, Alice finds out that her mother is pregnant around the same time as her court trial and her older sister can't make it to her court trial because of her college business that she has to attend to. To top everything off, Alice's new roommate at college was raped as well. To leave the place of her rape, just to come back again and find out that her roommate was raped, is ironic. I think that throughout this novel, Alice sebold played with a lot of ironic ideas. At the end of the novel, Alice seemed to be trying to get her life back together; re-inventing herself.
Quote: "Rape would not follow me."(Sebold 232).
Reaction: I like how the Alice played with irony thoughout the story. She used irony on the title, 'Lucky,' which Alice never seemed to be. She also played with irony when Alice returns to her college and her roommate was sexually abused as well. The connection that the quote has with the story is that at the end of the story, Alice seemed to be completely re-inventing herself. Alice did not let the rape control to much of her life, although it often terrified her to think about. She reassured herself that her past would remain her past for as long as it could.