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Persuasive Essay On Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold suffered from a traumatic experience when she was 18. She was taken by a predator who raped her and beat her under a bridge. Sebold never had the same perspective of the world again. After the accident, she had to survive with the memory of the incident in her head and learn how to get past it. This was hard for her especially because almost everyone around her knew, so there was no way she could hide from the rape. She also fought for her justice to lock away the rapist. Women all over the world are taken from their will and raped. Many times, women can’t do anything to fight back. The rapist takes control of them for that brief moment and do what they feel like to them, while the women can’t respond. After the incident itself is when it gets harder for the women to live …show more content…

Some people believe that rape isn’t that big of deal, while others say that society should provide better information to the public about rape. The public needs to be better informed about rape because society blames the girls for getting raped and because everyone should know what to do when they are caught in the situation of rape.
Society should provide better education to the public about rape because girls shouldn’t be the ones that are being told how not to get raped. For example, families are not informing their children as well as they should be. In the article, “My Teen Boys are Blind to Rape Culture,” Allard describes how she has noticed her sons are not well educated in rape culture. The article states, “I never imagined I would raise boys who would become men like these. Men who deny rape culture, or who turn a blind eye to sexism” (2016). This demonstrates how boys aren’t being taught to stay away from rape culture. Families forget boys need just as much education about rape like girls. Children who aren't taught the importance of rape growing up, they become men like Allard's boys, who deny rape culture.

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