The story of Alice Sebold’s memoir begins with her as a...

The story of Alice Sebold’s memoir begins with her as a freshman at Syracuse University and the scene in which she is brutally raped. Sebold writes in vivid detail on how the rape went throughout the beginning of the chapter. She was walking back to her dormitory through a park during nighttime when she was suddenly assaulted and raped by a black man. After the traumatizing experience, she makes her back to her dorm where she told her friends about the rape. One of her roommate’s black friends gives her a hug in order to apologize on behalf of the black men and to make her not judge them as rapists due to the incident. After meeting with her friends, they take her emergency room. A police officer later tells her that she was â€Å"lucky†Ã¢â‚¬ ¦show more content†¦Sebold further explains her feelings about the rape. She says how people did not see her the same way because she was â€Å"ruined† or â€Å"tainted.† She goes through a series of encou nters with people where she felt isolated from them because they did not know what to say to her or did not think she was the same person as before. Even through all of the isolation, she still decides to return to Syracuse. Everyone who knew about her rape felt uneasy towards her and tried to stay away from her. She begins taking hard-to-get-in classes such as a poetry workshop with Tess Gallagher and a writing workshop with Tobias Wolff. She starts to become fairly close to Mrs. Gallagher after showing her a poem that she wrote about the feelings she had for her rapist because Gallagher actually understood how she felt. One day on her way to Wolff’s class, she spots her rapist on Marshall Street and has an encounter with him. He asks her if he had seen her somewhere before but she ignored him and continued to walk. She notifies the police and the rapist, soon identified as Gregory Madison, is arrested. The story later develops into whether or not she wanted to testify her rape case since many rape victims would rather not continue and just leave everything in the past. Sebold, on the other hand, wants to testify and agrees to press charges and to actually be a witness in the triel. SheShow MoreRelatedEssay on Critical analysis of Alice Sebolds The Lovely Bones3148 Words   |  13 Pages Alice Sebold’s number one national bestselling novel The Lovely Bones depicts the horrendous rape and murder of a small-town girl named Suzie Salmon. Suzie must then watch--from her own personal heaven—her family and friends struggle to cope and move on with their lives. The novel is set in the suburbs of Norristown, Pennsylvania, 1973. Published in 2002, The Lovely Bones became an instant bestseller, and in 2010 it was released into theaters around the world. Alice Sebold’s early years helped