Lucky: Memoir pg 80-125

Summary

As I continue reading more about Alice Sebold and her life before the traumatic experience of getting raped, things start to get a little strange. Her father actually becomes a fun man. Mr. Sebold who believes "Fun is boring" actually played a board game with Alice. During this time, Alice was a senior in high school and was visiting Emerson College in Boston. She applied to two other colleges as well. Alice view of Emerson college differs from her father's. Alice saw the college as a school "where long haired students called throwbacks...smelled like true authentic rebellion. They smelled like pot." Now, i wouldn't want to go to a college where pot and rebellions rule the land, but Alice describes the school as "my kind of place". While her father makes her consider Boston College, whose campus was far more nicer than Emerson, she sets her mind on Emerson. She later visits Syracuse college and falls in love with the college. We are then taken back to the day she moves from New York to Pennsylvania. Weeks after the rape, she sees her raper and she immediately notifies Syracuse Police and the Police immediately take action by combing the area for any one that could fit the description given to the police by Alice. And now the search for Alice's rapist begins!

Quote

"That night I had a Dream. Al Tripodi was in it. In a prison cell, he and two other men held my rapist donw. I began to perform acts of revenge on the rapist but to no avail" (Sebold 121).

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This quote shows the effect of the experience on Alice's mentally. She has dreams about this man and she wishes to torment him. Normally, people wouldn't have dreams about tormenting others in a prison cell, but because of the experience she had, things like that start to come up. This quote shows the anger Alice has. She actually wants two man to bind this man together and she torments him. She gives no thought about forgiving him, whoever he is, but actually to torment him. But, she has endured alot though, so it will only be normal for her to feel this way.