Lucky Pgs. 91-159

Summary: In these chapters (7-11), Alice Sebold is going back to her rape story. Alice takes a minature break from her rape story to let readers digest what they have just read. In these chapters, Alice was continuing exactly for where she left off, which was going through the process of trying to figure out who her rapist was. What Alice goes through these chapters saying is that she doesn't want to be another statistic, another rape victim. The idea of being another one of the rape victims of the world is scary to her. Also, in these chapters, Alice has to identify who her rapist was. For any rape victim, i can understand this being a challenging process, but Alice took it well. I read that she panics about the smallest things that occur in her life, but she was suprisingly calm anout identifying her rapist (132-145). I think by identifying her rapist, Alice had that revelation moment, that this rape situation was always going to be apart of her life.
Quote:"A world of violent crime"(Sebold 145)
Reaction: This quote helps emphasis the overall story of this novel. Alice had to realize that the world is not just an amazing place to live, there are flaws that the world has to offer. The fact that Alice is facing the man that had sexually abused her, is an interesting twist on the story. Along with that twist, i like how there is also a dual narrative voice in the story. Alice uses the term "I later learned...," which expresses to me that she analyzed her situation years after it happened, but before she wrote the book. By Alice thinking about what had happened and analyzing everything in her own mind, the story becomes more realistic.