Monday, October 13, 2008

Lucky

Recently I have read a book called Lucky.  Lucky is a memoir of a college student who gets raped by an older man.  When she went back to her dorm she told her door officer and got rushed to the hospital.  She fights for her life for all the other people that man has probably raped.  She gets evidence from the "Rape Kit" and takes it to court.  While in court she doesn't stop fighting for against what the man did to her.  When she wrote the book it was wrote for all people who have been through the same thing that she went through and to show people who hasn't been through that to realize that it is very sad.  Sometimes it takes years for people to tell other people that they have been raped or sexually harassed.  I think the reason why the book is called lucky is because she states in the book that the doctors told her that she was lucky to be a live and lucky to have collected that much evidence.  But she didn't agree at the time because she didn't feel lucky at all after what just happend to her, she said she felt like she lost everything and that something was missing from her from then on.  This book is very inspirational and makes you really grateful and makes you realize that things like that are real.

1 comment:

faith.hope.love. said...

This sounds really good. I want to read it kind of! If you have the book I would love to borrow it. :) I know someone who was raped by two older boys, who received no punishment at all, because there WASN'T any DNA evidence in the "rape kit". This review made me think so much of that incident and how terrible it is to have this kind of thing happen to anyone. It hit a personal note for me so thanks for Sharing about this! xoxox
-Anastasia