Lucky Pgs. 35-61

Summary: In the chapters 3 through 5, Alice is basically going back to the time before the rape. She describes her childhood, growing up in Frazer , Pennsylvania. This chapter where she explicitly describes her childhood relates to the overall story because it's defining the simpler times for Alice Sebold. In just these two chapters, Alice describes playing with her dolls and former friend to laying across her bed the night of her rape. Every detail that Alice put into the story, whether it was changing her characters names or not, added more of a personal level to Alice Sebold's memoir.

Quote: " In the yard some distance from the house was a half-charred Raggedy Andy doll." (Sebold 35)

Reaction: After reading these two chapters from Alice Sebold's Lucky, my opinion of her as an overall author has not changed. The touch of detail that Alice added by putting the things she did before she was raped made me want to read more. When i first began reading the book, I felt that Alice rushed into explaining her rape too quickly. The forward was about her rape and then the first and second chapters were about it too. I didn't know whether the story was going anywhere, until Alice introduced the readers to her life before it became complicated. I think that by added her childhood to the story and giving her sexual abuse story a rest for awhile, the story became more enjoyable.