Krakauer's part four, Scale of Justice, unfolded the determination of Beau Donaldson’s sentence for the rape of Allison Huguet. Chapters seventeen through twenty all took place within the courtroom where the Beau’s sentence was made and Huguet’ justice was upheld. Krakauer described the delayed hearing which eventually took place on the morning of January 11, 2013. Judge Karen Townsend was the ultimate voice during this hearing who eventually after heard many opinions on the case, determined that Donaldson was in fact guilty for the rape of Allison and was sentenced with thirty years, with twenty of those years suspended. Donaldson was also required to undergo therapy in both alcohol and sex-offender treatment.
Her father, Jack, had several outburst and obsessed about finding the man who killed her.
In the novel, Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison develops the character Macon Dead, who acquired the nickname of Milkman. The actions of others can influence a life and the course of life for a person that has no real idea or firmness in decision making of their own. Milkman gets his nickname because he was breastfed by his mother at an oddly old age, and a man sees that through a window and begins laughing. While the name is is quite literal to the actual situation that made his acquire it such as being breast fed. Throughout the novel Milkman grows up rather advantaged and sheltered.
Something the mere eye cannot capture. I could go on and write a whole paragraph on PTSD and all the other accompanying side effects but in the end we would understand just as much. Or we would just have to accept this person’s reality individually and not how we want to create another person’s reality for ourselves. With this in mind I would like to ultimately thank Laurie Halse Anderson as she did a wonderful job in portraying a young girl’s struggles. I would like to assume that rape is a more common occurrence for teenage girls than most people might think.
Melinda is raped by an older boy at a party the summer before her freshman year of high school. The impacts of this event are socially and psychologically devastating for Melinda. Her declining mental health renders her physically unable to speak about being raped over the summer. She is unable to cope with her trauma, and forced to suffer alone. However, she eventually becomes empowered to speak up for herself and about her experience.
Without the supernatural aid, the hero would never start their journey, and in Susie’s case, never leave the In Between. The call turns out to be the voices of the dead and lead her to a safe, in which the audience finds out her body is kept, but for Susie, a flower from Mr. Harvey’s front lawn is stored. She crosses the threshold into the liminal zone and passes the first test
“One time I saw a tiny Joshua sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. ‘You’d be destroying what makes it special,’ she said.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver shows the women of the Congo as being the workers of the family. They take care of the children, going so far as to carry them around constantly once they reach a certain age, and they are responsible for all the housework. The females are seen as capable and have many responsibilities. In spite of this, the reality for the real women of the Congo is that they are in constant fear of being a victim of sexual violence. Sexual violence can happen anywhere, but in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) it occurs on a daily basis (Ganzamungu and Maharaj 737).
The characters, especially men, in Courage Under Fire and Boys Don’t Cry do not accept or respect the characters who have different genders. They believe that they are better than the other characters, just because they are men. The men in Courage Under Fire either see Captain Karen Emma Walden as a hero and someone who deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor, or as someone who does not deserve the award just because she is a woman. “In the old days, strong sturdy women were almost admired” (Silko, 66), this quote from Yellow Woman and the Beauty of the Spirit show that just like the strong Laguna Pueblo women are admired, Captain Walden is also admired by multiple men in the film.
A book editor for mass-market books and a female magazine writer, Danuta Kean (2012) found a startling trend of women writers producing more horrific violence novels that some men authors have. Confronted with the question about the trend, some women writers argued that they simply wrote about the fear that only women feel, like the fear of being raped that men do not understand. Unlike the current trend and the freedom that many women writer enjoy, Cherry character in the The Outsiders novel represents the transition of a woman’s writer views on their own roles and expectations in the
When questioned about rape, especially most women, they might think or even picture a stranger coming out of a dark place to assault someone. But in reality there’s more to it. According to the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, “About half of all people who are raped know the person who attacked them. This is known as date rape — forced sex that can happen not only on a date, but also somewhere like a party with someone the victim may know, like, or even be interested in.” Furthermore, social critic and feminist, Camille Paglia, has been discussing this persisting issue about date rape with a personal stance that many women may disagree with.
Sadly, she is abused by multiple offenders, such as her uncle, her employer, a classmate, and most importantly, her own father. Although her father does not molest her, he exploits her in other revealing ways. Sexual exploitation is when a child is sexually abused so their parent/caregiver may gain something in return (Schwartz-Kennedy, Beth M., et al 3). On one occasion in the book, Jeannette is exploited when her father is drunk at a bar, and he hands her over to another man to do whatever he wants to her (Walls 212-213). According to The International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family, one in five underage girls are sexually assaulted by an adult (Schwartz-Kennedy, Beth M., et al 19).
What is important, however, is how Liz reacts to that rape. Liz should rethink her feelings towards Jim. Her illusion of Jim’s greatness should be shattered, leading into disillusionment. Liz should learn and grow from this experience. However, Liz continues to live within her illusion, allowing her obsession with Jim to prevail.
Misery: Challenging Gender Stereotype Misery is the most thematically satisfying of all Stephen King’s novels. The theme this paper will explore further is that of King’s disturbing interpretation of gender roles. Gender stereotypes are what is thought of as societal norms dictating types of behaviour based on whether a person is a male or female. In popular literature gender stereotypes often see women as good, pure and innocent, whereas men are seen as strong and at times the evil beings, most often being the villain.
Slaves faced extreme brutality and Morrison focuses on rape and sexual assault as the most terrifying form of abuse. It is because of this abuse that Morrison’s characters are trapped in their pasts, unable to move on from the psychological damages that they have endured. “Morrison revises the conventional slave narrative by insisting on the primacy of sexual assault over other experiences of brutality” (Barnett 420). For telling Mrs. Garner what they had done, she was badly beaten by them, leaving a “chokecherry tree” (16) on her back. But that was not the overriding issue.
