In Williams’ essay, a standard theme is that seeing is tied with possessing; this is manifested in “S” by Slavenka Drakulić through S’s power of sight and being seen. Williams recounts an anecdote in her essay in which a young black woman wouldn’t make eye contact with a white male because “she didn’t like white people seeing inside her” (Williams 11). Through this assertion, Williams insinuates that being seen means you are somehow possessed by the one who is looking. In one example from “S,” S explains that the conflict in her mind was when she was seen and immediate ownership was taken of her. The soldiers looked at her and assumed she was just a Muslim and therefore theirs to do with what they pleased; “…war began the moment others started dividing and labelling her, when nobody asked her anything any more” (Drakulić 28). An interesting ordeal when S asserted herself by not acknowledging and consenting that she was seen/owned by the men at the camp in Bosnia was during one of S’s first rapes. She says, “One of them is trying to look into her face. He turns her face his way, yelling that she will remember him… His face blurs with the ceiling and with the fly” (Drakulić 61).