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Beloved By Alice Sebold
Some of the characters in the story are, Alice Sebold(the main character), Alice’s mother, Bud Sebold(her father), Mary Alice(her best friend), Lila(roommate/ friend), Dr.Husa(the doctor who examined her after the rape), Ken Childs( he had a crush on her and spent the night with her and took pictures of her, the night of the rape), the rapist and many more. The protagonist of the story is Alice Sebold and the antagonist was the rapist. This event happened on May 8, 1981, while walking through Thorden park at Syracuse University. The conflict that happened was that the main character Alice was walking home through a park off campus and was caught off guard by this random man who ended up raping her. While this was all happening they were by a Frat house and people were walking by while this was happening. …show more content…
Lastly, they went their separate ways and while she was walking she had cuts, bruises, and blood everywhere, people were looking at her like she was crazy. She was walking towards the dorm and was stopped by the RSA(resident security assistant), he stopped her to see if she was ok and asked her for her I.D, she did not have it so he let her go to the dorm, she first stopped at her best friend's room (Mary Alice)… surprisingly no answer, she knocked on her dorm no answer…. And lastly, she went into her two friends dorm Linda and Diane’s, Diane opened the door and passed out. She told them that she had been raped, the RSA heard what happened and called the police
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