To begin with, Lucky by Alice Sebold is a memoir that shows her overcoming a tragedy of being raped by a mysterious African American man in a tunnel whenever she was 18 years old. Despite being sexually assaulted Sebold promised herself that she’d write about her emotional meltdown point in her life. And that she’d spread awareness about what it’s like to become a rape victim, and how she overcame it with “astounding bravery.”
With this in mind, Rape being unacceptable makes society treat you like a victim. This is what happened whenever Alice got away from the rapist,