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out of Carolina throughout the entire story had one main concept I could
not stop thinking about, child abuse. From the first time we read as Daddy Glen
abused Bone in the parking lot, the many times he hit her with his belt, and
one of the final scenes where he raped her I could not stop thinking that I
hoped this was only a story and not something an innocent child would have to
experience. After watching the video about Dorothy Alison I realized it was not
just a story and it does happen every day whether we acknowledge it or not, the
later being what Anney did.
After only
seconds of research, thousands of articles of popped up of many stepfathers who
had abused their stepchild including of one of the most famous stepdad/
daughter abuse cases in history, Woody Allen and Dylan Farrow. This case was
the way I would have pictured Bone’s playing out when I think in to her future
(or what it would have been if her mother had not caught Daddy Glen in the act)
it was almost as if I were reading about Bone. She would have lived her life
and 20 years later come out telling everyone what happened and nothing would
have come of it. Dylan wrote in a public
letter "Woody Allen was never
convicted of any crime. That he got away with what he did to me haunted me as I
grew up” (Carter) the second I read this I could hear Bone’s voice coming
through. Every day it affected her that nobody knew this secret, she was around
her family every day and she was the only one who knew it had happened which
fueled all the anger inside of her. “Things come apart so easily when they have
been held together with lies” (Alison 248) and this is the truth in both cases.
The secrets kept between these girls and their stepfathers eventually tore
everybody apart; the people who looked past them felt guilt and ashamed, the
mothers feeling responsible for what has happened, and worst of all the
stepfathers no remorse besides their reputation ruined.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/01/showbiz/dylan-farrow-open-letter/
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