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In Missoula, Krakauer investigates how the justice system in general works against victims of sexual assault, but he puts a special focus into the way that Missoula's courts handle cases of rape. In Missoula, police officers and prosecutors ask women who report sexual assault whether they have boyfriends because sometimes girls cheat “and regret it, and then claim they were raped.” The former chief of police agrees that one woman likely, in Krakauer's words, “eagerly engaged in painful, injurious sex with four men she’d never met before that evening,” and goes out of his way to harass an alleged victim, including emailing her incorrect information about false rape reports. One lawyer produces a life-size cardboard cutout of an alleged victim in court and simulates having sex with it to prove she’s a liar in front of the victim and her family. District attorneys criticize women who speak out as “disgruntled” and blame them for the so-called scandal. Throughout the book, everyone from county and university officials to anonymous internet commenters wonder why women might want to ruin the lives of nice young men by accusing them of rape. Are they regretful? Fame-hungry? Jealous? All of the women in Missoula told Krakauer that they had the same motive for reporting their assaults: to hold their assailants accountable for what they did and to prevent them from doing it to anyone else.

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Allison Huguet case is the main case investigated by Krakauer. Previously known only as the nameless victim responsible for sending former UM Grizzlies running back Beau Donaldson to prison, Allison Huguet had been friends with her rapist since childhood. At first, Donaldson tearfully confessed to raping Huguet in her sleep, and Huguet told him she wouldn’t report him to the police if he sought help. When that didn’t happen, she got ready for battle: A lawyer friend told her to prepare for the “hardest, nastiest fight” of her life. It took two tape-recorded confessions, a second victim who testified that Donaldson had also sexually assaulted her, multiple agonizing court hearings dominated by Donaldson’s hostile lawyer, and a detective who had known and liked Huguet since high school to hold Donaldson accountable. Huguet struggled with PTSD and immense backlash from the community as she was repeatedly forced to argue why Donaldson was dangerous and should be punished. “The night Beau chose to wait until I was alone, asleep and defenseless, walk over to me, pull down my pants, pull down my underwear, pull down his pants, pull out his dick, and shove it into me, he gave me a life sentence — a life in which I have to work every day to get through the pain" (Krakauer 287).

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The most prevalent appeal used in Missoula was the appeal to our worst fears. The fear of rape transcends all racial and gender boundaries. Throughout Missoula, Krakauer provides extremely graphic, albeit honest narrations of the victims assaults. As you read through the narrations, it sends a terrible feeling through you. Nobody wants to be in the position that these women were in. Krakauer utilizes this appeal very effectively, and honing in on our worst fears motivates us to want change. Another appeal Krakauer uses is anger. Krakauer efficiently uses quotes from both professionals and victims that incite anger to readers. One example of this is on the title page for chapter 1. This quote is from Jessica Valenti: "Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.”  Krakauer used this quote before his argument in order to get readers fired up and feeling something before an attempt at an argument is even made, which effectively utilizes the appeal of anger.

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Krakauer tends to use a few methods to organize his ideas throughout Missoula. One commonly used tool was narration. In order for this book to have some form of pathos, Krakauer used narration to tell the stories of rape victims. He combined the tool of narration with chronological organization. As he told the stories of the sexual assault victims, Krakauer also injected the trials of the victims into the narration. While this provided a chronological narration of the victims' story, it also allowed Krakauer to highlight important things said during the trials, and build his argument off these things. This strengthens the argument by allowing the reader to understand the stories of the victims while simultaneously understanding the flawed legal matters behind the cases.

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“We were lovers after all, with a love like that you hardly have to ask, right?”

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“We were lovers after all, with a love like that you hardly have to ask, right?”

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Neil Hilborn & Ollie Schminkey - "One Color" (NPS 2013)

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Throughout all of Jon Krakauer's' book Missoula, Krakauer focuses on the repercussions of acquaintance rape, and argues despite its prevalence, this is the kind of rape most likely to be misunderstood and ignored. Acquaintance Rape is a sex crime committed by someone who knows the victim. It could be a friend, classmate, relative, co-worker. Acquaintance rape includes forced, manipulated or coerced sexual contact. Because of our misconceptions as a collective society about rape, we often overlook acquaintance rape. “…I was astounded by the ignorance of acquaintance rape… A very old concept of rape prevails. According to this mind-set, there can only be two precursors to rape: (1) A stranger jumps out of the bushes; (2) There is no rape unless the woman put up a fight, to the death if necessary" (Krakauer 102). As the severity of acquaintance rape is often overlooked, this often comes into play in the legal system. According to the anti-sexual violence organization RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, 7 out of 10 rape victims know their rapists, which means they aren’t evil villains from TV. They’re your mild-mannered high-school classmates who would never hurt a fly, your mutual friend from college who you always see at parties on weekends, your trusted family member — and even your romantic partner or long-term significant other. Knowing your rapist changes the dynamic of the case completely. Often in trials the accused will bring in family members, past teachers, and friends to testify for their character. As this happens, the fact that a woman was raped by the accused takes the background, while making the man look like a good person takes the foreground. But most importantly, Krakauer argues that "College-age women are not raped because they are promiscuous, or drunk, or send mixed signals, or feel guilty about casual sex, or seek attention. They are the victims of a terrible crime and deserving of compassion from society and fairness from a justice system that is clearly broken" (Krakauer 18).