Lucky 2

Alice decides to return to Syrcuse for the next year of college, surprising most of her friends. Most of her friends thought she would not return for the following years of college due to her rape the prior year. Alice's decison to return showed her strength and determination to not let the rape effect her. Despite her strength, lots of people knew about the rape and gave her bad looks. Alice still has many friends from last year, but is not living with them as she has been assigned to an all female dormitory. In addition, with all of her classes she does not really have time to see them. Alice is taking multiple English workshops ( English Classes for poetry and story writing). In these workshops she makes several new friends including a proffessor. She writes a poem about her rapist which indicates that if she were to meet him that she would kill him. This strongly worded poem receives a negative response from one student who refuses to comment on it when asked by the proffeser to do so. Later this girl trys to commit suicide because her brothers used to rape her. This was my favorite part of the book because Alice now knows that she is not the only person who has been raped. As a result of this revelation, these two girls can relate.