Alice Sebold decided to attend Syracuse University. While in her freshman year, while walking back to her dorm she was beaten and sexually assaulted. The man brought her to a tunnel and did that to her. She eventually made it back to her dorm then she was rushed to the hospital and reported her case. They later found the man and he was arrested and convicted of sexual assault and maximum sentence. Later they found out that in the same tunnel she was assaulted in, a woman was once murdered in that very place. Even after such a dramatizing experience, she returned to school at Syracuse University then went on to the University of Houston and in an attempt to graduate. Later she headed to New York in aspiration to become a writer. She did recognize that her twenty's was definitely not a prime time for her. It was a time where she drank more than she should have, snorted heroin for three years, and did life risking things such as climbing to the top of the Manhattan Bridge(StevenBarclayAgency).
In "The Lovely Bones" the little girl Susie Salmon was raped and murdered. Much like Sebold except she was raped and a woman was killed in the same spot.
Like the book. Susie Salmon was raped and killed in a spot far away from people, a dark place. While Sebold was raped and left in an unstable condition. This happens to so many people and even young kids. It's a hard subject for anybody, especially those who have been threw it. It's very strong of her to talk about it even though it's not her, but the fact that she probably