The Girl With The Blackened Eye
With this fiction story there are an infinite number of places to begin reflecting from. The tone, the location and scenery, the feelings that it evokes in it's readers, what the girl is describing. It is all very vivid, and to me personally there was not one dull moment in the story. It was extremely interesting, disturbing, and made cause for a little self reflection and questioning. "How can he do that to her? What would I do if that were to happen to me? How is she alive?".
The detail and imagery in this story was gruesome, ugly, and very real. Telling about her gums being infected and bleeding, causing her to gag. She had been abducted at the age of 15. To most of us in college, knowing she was so young making us think about ourselves when we were that age, and it seems like it was so long ago. It is heartbreaking and disturbing, and to think how her husband and children do not know of what happened to her.
The part about this story that disturbed me the most was not her wounds, was not the physical abuse, was not even the witnessing of the abduction of another woman, but how she ended up feeling about this disgusting man. It evokes rage in me knowing that she could say at some point in the story that she was envious of the fact that this greasy disgusting man was looking at another woman and not her. The way she described her jealous feelings, even the excitement she felt being able to ride in the car in public with him. The fact that when she was able to see him, she analyzed him. Who would want to know anything about a person as despicable as him?
Great.
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