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=Alice Sebold's //Lucky//: How rape changes relationships=

Dear Viewers-

When a woman is raped her whole life is flipped into another dimension. In Alice Sebold's memoir of her rape, she shares the details of her life after rape, including how her relationships changed.

Before her rape, her relations with her family were a bit strained but it became even more prevalent afterwards. Her mother was an alcoholic and addicted to valium and suffered from panic attacks (that they referred to as 'flaps') as Alice and her sister were growing up. After her rape, Alice tried to reach out to her mother and share her story with her, but her mother couldn't listen to what had happened to her baby girl, she just couldn't understand that verbally sharing what happened to her would help Alice overcome the trauma.

Another site that is included here, is a page that covers the relationship that a victim has with the person that raped them. When a person is a victim of trauma, they need some assistance to be able to accept what happened to them, and move on with their lives. We chose to show this through a page that resembles a page that [|RAINN], a trauma support organization, would have created to invite survivors to share their stories in the form of writing a letter to their rapist. Sebold tried to share her story with members of her family, and they just could not bare to hear the specifics of what happened to her. In order for her to move on, and to grow to accept what happened to her, she needed to share her story, and some other victims have found that writing to their rapist is a useful form of therapy.

In relation to how a victim reacts towards her rapist, we have included the details from The Alice Sebold Case as Sebold puts it in her memoir. Including this information, allows readers and other victims to see how she felt and the details of how a rape case would proceed in court.

A woman who has been assaulted by a man, against her will, is bound to have a different opinion of the sex afterwards. Having a relationship with a man, must be much harder after a tragic event like a rape. In her memoir, Sebold shares how hard it was to even hug a man the day after her rape. She later grows and accepts what has happened to her, and is able to be in a relationship with a man. On Alice and Males, there is a more in depth analysis of how a woman who has been raped can relate to a man in a romantic scenario.

In addition to the analysis of how a victim's perspective of relationships is changed after their rape, we would also like to provide information to our viewers as to what the procedure would be if it happened to you in the Kalamazoo area.

-The Creators: Heather, Stephen, Jessica W., Emily, and Charlotte

__Quotes from the Creators__

//" The way that Alice Sebold was able to write freely about the account of her rape and how it changed her view of the world as a whole, was so admirable. I know, now, that a victim needs to share their story in order to set themselves free from the trauma, but I still don't think that if I was to be the victim of a rape, that I would be able to write a memoir and have the world know what happened to me." -Charlotte

"I was so drawn to Alice and her entire situation. This book really interested me and is one that I would definitely recommend to any college student, especially a female. It was so easy to relate to that it was almost scary because that reminds us of how horrible the world that we live in can actually be sometimes. I agree with Charlotte that I could never write so freely about such a situation, since this was such a private and personal matter." -Jessica

"__Lucky__ is an amazing story that I believe EVERYONE should read! It was written with such good description that makes you feel like you are standing right next to her during every moment of her story. It is so moving to know that someone can go through such harm and struggle and still be so strong! This is truly a story that can motivate the most broken down of souls!" -Heather

"Alice Sebold has an unbelievable and empowering story to tell about her experience with survival, healing, and justice. The detail, honesty and reality of this memoir makes it one that should be read by all." -Emily

"Alice delivers a chilling, yet compelliing personal story of her experiences before, during, and after her rape. The details are shocking, but also allows the reader to feel the pain she feels during the whole ordeal. The story is amazing and I would recommend it to anyone who knows someone who has been raped, has been through rape themselves, or wants to hear an amazing story of p////erseverance" -// Stephen