https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2 Alice Sebold en-us 2021-04-27 16:40:32 UTC 2025-10-23 13:25:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/149890640/8c61056d22ec22a4b3a7aff061d76ffc/image.png torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1594310473 The day was May 8, 1981. outside of Syracuse University, Alice Sebold was walking through a park and and soon gets grabbed buy a big man. She is held and tries to scream, but gets threatened instead. This soon leads to Sebold being pinned down in a tunnel and forced to undress herself. She does as the man asks and he begins to touch her.  ]]> 2021-06-09 00:22:43 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1594310473 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600435276 Sebold, Alice. Lucky. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. ]]> 2021-06-11 05:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600435276 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600496530 A girl was killed brutally in the same place that Alice was raped in, and was told that she was lucky.
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" In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheater, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dismembered. I was told this story by the police. In comparison, they said, I was lucky"(4)]]> 2021-06-11 06:28:34 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600496530 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600531530 While she is being raped, Alice hears people around in the area. She screams for help but no one is able to hear her. 
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"I looked at him; he did not hear them. This was it. I made an abrupt scream and, as soon as I did, he shoved his hand in my mouth"(10)  ]]> 2021-06-11 06:56:08 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600531530 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600557046 Alice walks back to her dorm room passing a Kegger party and getting weird stares due to her bloody clothes.]]> 2021-06-11 07:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600557046 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600569455 Sebold goes on to tell her friends what had happened, at first no one opened the door. Then moments later, her friend Linda opens the door. Alice told Linda causing Linda to pass out. She then goes down and tells the RSA.
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"The RSA cared. I turned around and walked back downstairs to his desk"(16)]]> 2021-06-11 07:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600569455 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600583269 The RSA calls for help and police officers take control of the scene. Alice is carried to an ambulance and taken away, creating a scene.
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" I was that girl. The ripple effect began in the halls"(16) ]]> 2021-06-11 07:37:51 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600583269 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600592191 Once at the hospital, Alice gets tested for evidence of the man that raped her. She also takes medicated drugs to relieve the pain of the stitches that were given to her. Friends go to visit and try to help in the ways that they can.]]> 2021-06-11 07:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600592191 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600599871 Once done with examinations, she goes to the police station to have her photos taken. Then, she realizes that the man she liked took photos of her before she went out and was raped.
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"Ken Childs, a boy I liked, had shot almost a whole roll of film, snapping candids of me in various poses throughout his apartment"(23)]]> 2021-06-11 07:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600599871 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600607312 Returns to dorm and is crowded by people. Her best friend is there next to her while people walk in and out of the small room. Alice realizes that she has to tell her mother of what happened eventually.]]> 2021-06-11 07:58:43 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600607312 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600611932 Alice borrows the phone of her best friend after her mother is dialed. Alice tells her of what happened and leaves her mother in shock. Her mom was only a few hours away, since it was the day that Alice was going to be picked up from school for the summer. 
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" 'Oh,my God,' and then, after a quick inhalation of breath, a startled gasp, she reeled herself in. 'Are you alright?'" (26)]]> 2021-06-11 08:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600611932 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600621733 Her mother drives her back to the police station for farther investigation about what had happened. They are assisted by a cop named Lorenz. He helps Alice to write a simple summary of the event. ]]> 2021-06-11 08:11:20 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600621733 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600631964 Alice is packed up and says her last goodbyes. She sees her best friend (who had waited there with Alice the entire time). Her best friend tries to comfort Alice in the last moments that they have together. 
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"Before my mother and I took our leave, and as a final way to show her love, Mary Alice worked among the tangles in my hair to make a French braid"(30)]]> 2021-06-11 08:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600631964 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600668078 They pick up Alice's sister from her University. Her sister already knew what had happened to Alice, but at the time Alice did not. On the way home, Alice begins thinking about her family's  issues. Her parents relationship was one of the biggest thing that she could think of. Growing up, she realized that her parents didn't really show love to each other.
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"He kissed her on the forehead, the kind of kiss that would fulfill the demand of his child but nothing else"(41)]]> 2021-06-11 08:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1600668078 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1601531282 Alice began to tell the reader of her mothers' health issues. Her mother had something that she called a "flap". This was when he mother would suddenly begin to feel very ill and have to massage her chest to feel somewhat stable. One of Alice's memories of this was when her mom took her to New York as a gift. Her mother became ill and they had to cancel the trip that Alice was so excited for.
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"I was so excited to be going but as she rocked back and forth in her seat and her hands trembled- one on her right temple and one rubbing the space between her breasts- I decided we should go back home"(47)]]> 2021-06-11 16:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1601531282 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1601559107 After the somewhat long ride home, she thinks about her father and his past. Her father was a tall man who spoke Spanish with his colleagues over the phone. He was also a serious man that would go on vacations to Spain for months at a time every year. Alice remembers that she learned to never walk into her fathers study for it would anger him. After thinking about her father, she enters the house to see him in a different way than usual
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" But that day he was shaking when I saw him at the end of the long hall in the back entrance way of our house"(50)]]> 2021-06-11 17:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1601559107 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1601561297 Alice did not know that her mother had already told her sister of what had happened to her. In the car, Alice notices that her sister seems rather uncomfortable and distant from Alice. Alice is confused by this and a little hurt by it. She later realizes that it was because she had been raped. ]]> 2021-06-11 17:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1601561297 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1601586179 On the quiet drive to her sisters university, her mother has to drive by a church. There is a group of black men in front of the building. These men remind Alice of her rapist. She feels bad for feeling this way about men that had done nothing to her. But she can't help but feel scared around them because of the incident ]]> 2021-06-11 17:22:20 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1601586179 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1601587634 After being welcomed home by her neighbors and people of the town, Alice decides to go out for some fresh air. She walks around town not looking for any in particular, then someone catches her eye. She looks over and sees a man squatting down against a wall. She is terrified to see that it is a familiar face, the face of her rapist. ]]> 2021-06-11 17:22:58 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1601587634 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1601617934 She runs home terrified and tells her mother while sobbing. The police is called and goes out to find him. The rapist is caught and there is a court session scheduled. Alice has several pieces of evidence that help her win the case, and send the man to jail for the punishment that he deserves. A long time passes after the trial and Alice now moves on from this experience. One day the same thing that had happened to Alice happened to her best, friend she was raped. Alice tries to help her friend but Lila (her friend) believes that it happened because of Alice and her past, this leads to their friendship breaking apart. Alice wanted to help Lila fix the issue but Lila wanted to forget about it. ]]> 2021-06-11 17:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1601617934 torrebla001 https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1601717581 After what had happened to her friend, Alice felt guilty. She became addicted to heroin and suffered from severe mental issues. Alice believed that the rape of her friend was entirely her fault. Alice worked to become a TA and worked with people who had also been raped. She began to recover and wrote a segment on the New York Times about her rape and how it had effected her. ]]> 2021-06-11 18:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/torrebla001/aumtty0uv1tomtm2/wish/1601717581