Post B2

Dear Alice,

Sometimes I just don't understand you during this book. You say some things that were just weird to me after what happened to you. I mean you handle it well, but sometimes I think you are handling it to well. Because when you said "considering the only thing I've had in my mouth in the last twenty-four hours is a cracker and a cock," (51) to your dad after he asked you something to eat; I found it just kind of rude to yourself. Like you try and joke about it and I don't think it's a joking matter at all, maybe it's just a way for you to recover cause sometimes I do that when bad things happen, but I feel this was just way to far. Especially saying it to your father when they are scared enough of what happened to you and they don't know what is good or bad to say. And when they ask a simple question like what do you want to eat and you respond how you did it might change how they act around you.
But on the other hand, sometimes you treat yourself worse than you should. Like when the boy came over for Mary and he gave you a weird look. And, you said, " He likes Mary,"...
"because Mary wasn't raped" (69). Here, you are being to hard on yourself I think. Maybe he just likes Mary cause of her personality, not by the way she looks or what she has done or what happened to her. But, being raped I'd expect someone to be on an emotional roller coaster, just not the same kind of roller coaster that you were on.

Sincerely,
Ellie