Jennylin's Sexual Abuse

According to the National Children’s Alliance, one in four girls and one in six boys under the age of eighteen are at risk of being sexually abused but only according to what is reported. In the State of Texas, a professional has forty-eight hours to report any cause to believe a child been abused as stated in Sec. 261.101. As a foster parent and principal, Angela Sugarek and Carol Jeffery had a major moral responsibility and legal duty to report what her three year old foster son was displaying: behaving strangely and an anal injury.

At some point in their life, every person has been told to “walk in somebody else’s shoes” because they need to be aware of the struggles that other people face, but it is often tough for people to understand things outside of the scope of their own practical knowledge. In her memoir, Lucky, Alice Sebold suffers from this same problem. Throughout the course of her narrative, Sebold thinks of her experience as something that is accessible to be understood by outsiders; in addition to this, Sebold paints her reactions and experiences as a model that she can apply to other victims of sexual assault. Even though Sebold’s story is one of strength in the face of horrible occurrences, her lack of acknowledgement in regards the ways in which other people’s consciousness and coping mechanisms differ from her own makes it far more difficult to sympathize with her than it should be considering the content of her memoir. Evidence of her closed world understanding can be seen from the beginning of the memoir, when she reports her sexual assault to the police (Sebold, 3), later in the narrative, when other people react to her experiences and related feelings (Sebold 146), and finally, and perhaps most significantly, when her close friend Lila undergoes a sexual assault (Sebold 220).

Maxine Hong Kingston has many unanswered questions about her father’s sister. Kingston explores all the possibilities of her aunt’s life and personality through her essay, “No Name Woman.” Her aunt profoundly disgraced her family by becoming pregnant out of wedlock. Although the aunt is punished by the family’s refusing to remember her, this punishment is entirely unwarranted because not only was the aunt clearly raped, she was raped by her husband’s father.

Her mother chooses to ignore the abuse because she knows she will have to decide between her husband and daughter. Anney’s distance causes Bone to endure this evil on her own. Initially, Bone cannot share her experience because Anney was dealing with enough of her own problems with the miscarriage. As time passed, she lost further faith with her mother’s trust of Daddy Glen’s distorted versions of the truth, she has no one to reaffirm how special she is, so she starts thinking things like “I was evil” (Allison 110).

Nevertheless, Cunegonde is not the only woman to accept her experiences. When the Old Woman is describing her history, she begins telling the story of the first time she was raped, but interrupts stating, “let us pass on; these are such common things as not to be worth mentioning” (25). This shows how indifferent the Old Woman was to such sexual exploitation during this time. She even explains at the end of her disturbing story that she refuses to hold any self-pity, and was only sharing her story simply “to pass away the time” (29).

I am outraged, by the fact that Karla had to experience sexual abuse for eleven years. I experience a mix of feelings as I learned that at age 5 she was raped and that at age 12 her life became worst as she was forced to let herself be raped 30 or more times a day. It was clear in the beginning that she wanted the readers to keep the number 43,000 in mind because that’s the number of times she cried for help in four years. however, what outraged me the most was the fact that Mexico’s authorities took advantage of Karla and the other victims of sex trafficking instead of rescuing them. as authorities their responsibility was to do the right thing and save them instead of using them for their disgusting “evil necessities.” We desperately need

A trait that stands out in the book is the symptom of bodily memories. In Melinda’s case, during a frog dissection in her science class, she remembers the opening up and even says, “She doesn’t say a word. She is already dead. A scream starts in my gut – I can feel the cut, smell the dirt, feel the leaves in my hair.” (81). One of the other symptoms that Melinda has is self-harm. The first time that this is shown in the book, Melinda says this, “I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this? A whimper, a peep?” (87). Melinda also has a hard time talking to her parents about the rape to which she says, “How can I talk to them about that night? How can I start?” (72). Some victims recover from such a traumatic experience, while others don’t and live a lifetime of depression and must undergo intense therapy. In Melinda’s case, she finds redemption by talking to her parents and the guidance counselor, and putting her faith into her teachers, friends, and her art project at school. Because rape can affect anybody anywhere, everyone should be aware of the circumstances, and how to deal with it.

Jacobs’ narrative is open and honest in its depiction of sexual harassment, describing the nature of the abuse and the tortured emotional state it leaves its victims in. Though the narrative tells of a girl’s life over one hundred and fifty years ago, it remains timely in its reminder that many suffering women do not have the ability to safely end the harassment they face every day, and yet, they continue to endure the consequential

1). Ms. Greenlee is one of the most identifiable survivors of this type of tragedy. Greenlee told Ms. Martin (2013), “ she was forced to go through anywhere from 25 to 50 men a day or she would receive unimaginable punishments,” (para. 3). Greenlee told Martin (2013), “punishments were beyond severe, if she was not able to go through the number of customers they told her to she would pay with beatings, multiple rapes by multiple men, or even worse they would force her to watch as they tortured one of the other women they had kidnapped as her punishment,” (para. 6). Martin (2013) reports that, “Greenlee, who was kidnapped at age 12, was part of about eight girls who were kidnapped by a group of men who injected them with heroin and sometimes handcuffed them to the bed,” (para. 4). The tortures that Ms. Greenlee faced are unimaginable. She is one of the few women who have been able to escape from that world and talk about it openly.

Although a light read, her experience is heart-breaking as she is abused at home, institutionalized, and instead of being treated for her depression, doctor’s attempt to “feminize” her with eye shadow and lipstick. She is the type of advocate that makes noise in a silence because she tells a tale that would otherwise be unknown.

The discourse of “incest” is considered almost universally as taboo and so is the study of the phenomena of sexual relations between closely related individuals in its diverse manifestations. Literary texts at length have tried to explore incest as social and psychological deviance but the discussion moves to the margins of the narrative into unspoken or rather “unspeakable” territory. The mainstream discourse prevents the writers from representing and speaking about the theme of incest explicitly. It remains restricted to a marginal space and can be understood only through a deep exploration of the individual characters and the narrative style of the text.

Most would considered this is one of the biggest taboo someone can commit, but there are some would not have considered this a particularly high up on the taboo list because there are a lot worst unspeakable acts someone could commit such as murder or cannibalism. Also, I feel that through incest I can explore the emotional and psychological turmoil they would undoubtedly face, similar to the characters of Tabitha Suzuma’s ‘Forbidden’ .

Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Ruined takes place at Mama Nadi’s brothel in the Congo where a civil war is being waged and coltan is the new gold being mined from the earth. Mama Nadi reluctantly takes Sophie and Salima into her establishment to work alongside Josephine as entertainment for miners and soldiers. Before coming to Mama Nadi’s, Sophie, Josephine, Salima all experienced rape. The word rape is so common in our society that it has lost its intensity and heinousness to a person who has not experienced it. Rape is a general term to describe what the women experienced but it does not give any hint to the struggle that comes after the event. For example, what it does to a person’s mind, the lasting scars on someone’s body, and how it can change a person’s personality. Many critics assume that rape is the tragedy in the play, but Nottage’s use of the word “ruined” emphasizes that the real tragedy is the consequences of those soldier’s actions on these women 's lives and how it affected their interactions with society.

In America, incest is another shocking form of sexual, social deviance. In the Netherlands and Belgium, you can have sex with close family members, if you are over the age of 18 and it is consensual. In other countries, cousins are

I. Attention getter: Do you know a friend or family member who has been sexually abused? Or maybe you have experienced sexual abuse yourself? Are you aware of the psychological and developmental effects it can have on you or someone you may know? Chances are, you don’t—while sexual abuse is common, may people do not speak up, and the problem goes unrecognized.