Another question i wanted to answer was this “We’ve covered some heavy things this semester – what was your most difficult moment in this class?  Why?”-  I would have to say, the single most  hardest moment i’ve experienced in this class, was watching Bastard Out of Carolina and Bone was getting raped in the car. It showed everything, her facial expressions, everything. Just that movie was so hard to watch in general, it covered things that everyone was scared to cover. Rape is a huge topic however, and it needs to be talked about if it ever will be prevented. Before this class, i had never had a conversation about rape with anyone, or met any girl who had been raped. Then i came to college, and what once was a topic i’d never been educated in because i assumed it didn’t happen, was hit by a tidal wave of women with rape experiences. I’m glad that we learned about it however, because i feel like a more educated person because i know the truth about hard subjects like this.

Now that i’ve read the book because i finally purchased it, i can finally write my favorite quotes. My two favorite quotes were “Why a man would rape a child, why a man would beat a child.” and my other quote is “Men eat themselves up believing they have to be what they have been made.” I like these quotes because they are so simple yet they have so much meaning. For instance the first one, it means exactly what it says. Why in the world, for any reason, would a man rape a child. First of all, a child is someone who is little and is so easily suseptable to everything you teach them. If you teach it that sex is ok and being forced to have sex is ok then psychologically when they get older, they will be messed up. It is horrible, it makes me sick. to think that someone would take advantage of someone smaller, and less strong just because they can. No one has a right to do that. I feel the same way about animal abuse and any abuse in any form. But especially sexual abuse and rape of little girls, of any girls. I just can’t stomach it. The second quote is particularly deep because it reminds me a lot of my family. I used to get talks all the time about how i should be and act when i grow up. Sadly, i am the black sheep of my family. and i didn’t follow how i was supposed to grow up. But that’s ok, because i’m breaking the cycle. I’m being myself instead of my parents. This is why i like these quotes though, they are so simple. Reading them really makes you think of how you were brought up and how you lucky you were….or unlucky. i wish i could make the pain of every girl and boy that has been raped or sexually abused, go away. i wish there was someway to remove the hurt. it doesn’t matter how hard i try, it’s impossible. I just wish i could do something. I wish none of them felt ashamed.