Lucky Alice Sebold Analysis
Societies view crimes as negative committing made by people. Although, there are some actions that one may do that many will not like, but the worse action to do is stealing someone else's free will. Rape, is the stealing of a person's free will sexually. Societies look at rape as many crimes put together. Therefore, being one of the worse of crimes, people can't treat rape victims; thereby, leading to the person's complete isolation. Hence, being raped can affect a person's life negatively or positively.
In the book "Lucky" by: Alice Sebold, society is shown to treat her as an outcast. Meaning, that the way people around her treat her, I felt was very disgusting and inconsiderate. Her friends', teachers', the people she knew, all isolated …show more content…
themselves from her. The reason is, that people viewed rape as a negative and real low crime to commit. As a result, being raped changes the view that everybody thinks of you as, like it did to Alice. In addition, her close friends weren't as close and giving as Alice hoped them to be. Lastly, I feel that the way people isolated Alice, was like she had a sickness that was contagious.
The rape negatively impacted Alice Sebold in a key important way.
Alice's self-esteem was impacted immensely, where she even at a point was self-deprived of herself. In addition, because being raped has impacted Alice in many ways; we see throughout the novel that there are a lot of up's and downfalls in her self-esteem. We see Alice's attempt in keeping her high self-esteem from the novel on page 57; "Hey, I said. What is it? I wanted to hold her. I wanted her to hold me. I'm sorry, she said. You're doing so well with it. I just don't know how to act... I don't know how you are being so strong. She looked at me, tears on her cheek. It's okay, I said to my sister. It's all going to be okay." One can see, that even though the worse has happened to Alice, still she deals with the situation very strongly and accepts the inevitable. On the other hand, there is a scene where Alice's self-esteem is shown to be very low, by looking at page 69; "He likes Mary, I said, making my presence known, because Mary wasn't raped! Alice, my mother said, don't do this. He's a nice boy, I said. No nice boy is ever going to want me." We can see from this quote that Alice has trouble keeping up her self-esteem and the way she thinks about herself. It is self-esteem that determines the way you treat and view …show more content…
yourself.
Rape is a very tough crime to deal with, in order to help aid, or cure one that has been infected.
I believe that being raped is a disease, due to the aftermath of the way people think of you. In the case with Alice, it is shown from the book itself that plenty of people have tried to help Alice. However, as one will learn after reading this book that there is no cure that anybody can offer. Alice's mom has tried to help Alice by talking to her, Alice's closest friends' even tried to help as much as possible; by lending a hand or doing things for her, Alice's teacher even tried to get out all of the anger by letting her write up a poem in class about the rapist, Alice's mom even sent Alice to the psychologist and that didn't even work. Therefore, after doing as much as everybody possibly could do, at the end it got nowhere because it was up to Alice to fight it out of her system and get over it. As a result, one can conclude why everybody staid isolated from Alice and why a normal rape victim, like Alice would be treated like an
outcast.
When one reads about Alice in the book, you will realize of how she actually comes to a point of self-actualization and is sort of in a dream world, where the rape in her mind didn't actually take place, and that she was still a virgin. In addition, after the rape has happened, you see that she feels that physically she's still a virgin, while scientifically she wasn't. One may conclude this from page 157; "When I woke in the late afternoon, it was over. I had lost my real virginity." You see that she accepts of how the society treats her, and she thinks of it as nothing; without even letting it bother her for the most part of the book. You can also conclude that she is a woman who just wanted to be accepted in society again, and to be liked by all the guys she has crushes on. In addition, she wanted the sense of being needed by someone; also, she just like every woman has needs that she wants to be fulfilled. This was indeed an obstacle in her life.
In the book "Lucky" by: Alice Sebold, society is shown to treat her as an outcast. Meaning, that the way people around her treat her, I felt was very disgusting and inconsiderate. Her friends', teachers', the people she knew, all isolated …show more content…
themselves from her. The reason is, that people viewed rape as a negative and real low crime to commit. As a result, being raped changes the view that everybody thinks of you as, like it did to Alice. In addition, her close friends weren't as close and giving as Alice hoped them to be. Lastly, I feel that the way people isolated Alice, was like she had a sickness that was contagious.
The rape negatively impacted Alice Sebold in a key important way.
Alice's self-esteem was impacted immensely, where she even at a point was self-deprived of herself. In addition, because being raped has impacted Alice in many ways; we see throughout the novel that there are a lot of up's and downfalls in her self-esteem. We see Alice's attempt in keeping her high self-esteem from the novel on page 57; "Hey, I said. What is it? I wanted to hold her. I wanted her to hold me. I'm sorry, she said. You're doing so well with it. I just don't know how to act... I don't know how you are being so strong. She looked at me, tears on her cheek. It's okay, I said to my sister. It's all going to be okay." One can see, that even though the worse has happened to Alice, still she deals with the situation very strongly and accepts the inevitable. On the other hand, there is a scene where Alice's self-esteem is shown to be very low, by looking at page 69; "He likes Mary, I said, making my presence known, because Mary wasn't raped! Alice, my mother said, don't do this. He's a nice boy, I said. No nice boy is ever going to want me." We can see from this quote that Alice has trouble keeping up her self-esteem and the way she thinks about herself. It is self-esteem that determines the way you treat and view …show more content…
yourself.
Rape is a very tough crime to deal with, in order to help aid, or cure one that has been infected.
I believe that being raped is a disease, due to the aftermath of the way people think of you. In the case with Alice, it is shown from the book itself that plenty of people have tried to help Alice. However, as one will learn after reading this book that there is no cure that anybody can offer. Alice's mom has tried to help Alice by talking to her, Alice's closest friends' even tried to help as much as possible; by lending a hand or doing things for her, Alice's teacher even tried to get out all of the anger by letting her write up a poem in class about the rapist, Alice's mom even sent Alice to the psychologist and that didn't even work. Therefore, after doing as much as everybody possibly could do, at the end it got nowhere because it was up to Alice to fight it out of her system and get over it. As a result, one can conclude why everybody staid isolated from Alice and why a normal rape victim, like Alice would be treated like an
outcast.
When one reads about Alice in the book, you will realize of how she actually comes to a point of self-actualization and is sort of in a dream world, where the rape in her mind didn't actually take place, and that she was still a virgin. In addition, after the rape has happened, you see that she feels that physically she's still a virgin, while scientifically she wasn't. One may conclude this from page 157; "When I woke in the late afternoon, it was over. I had lost my real virginity." You see that she accepts of how the society treats her, and she thinks of it as nothing; without even letting it bother her for the most part of the book. You can also conclude that she is a woman who just wanted to be accepted in society again, and to be liked by all the guys she has crushes on. In addition, she wanted the sense of being needed by someone; also, she just like every woman has needs that she wants to be fulfilled. This was indeed an obstacle in her life.