All The Rage Research Paper
All The Rage by Courtney Summers is a realistic fiction novel that is based on a rape survivor's life after trying to tell someone what happened to her. When Romy tried to tell someone no one believed her and she got bullied at her school for it, people would tell her that she lied about getting raped and say cruel things to her. The boy that raped her was named Kellan Turner and his father is the sheriff of Romy’s home town. So when she tried to go to the police he said, she was lying and her son would never do that, and from there on she gave up on trying to get help because no one believed her anyways. When one of her old best friends Penny the popular girl in school goes missing, she discovers that there is another girl in a town nearby that claims to have been assaulted by Kellan Turner too. She needs to decide whether she wants to speak out to help the girl, although no one believed her before. The research topic I chose to research in correspondence to the novel, is rape culture. The first thing i researched about sexual violence was the real life statistics to show how huge of
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The first questions people usually ask about a rape crime are “What was the victim wearing?”, “Was the victim drunk?.” But these are the wrong questions that we ask, these questions make victims feel like them being sexually assaulted is there fault for wearing something revealing or drinking to much, but that does not mean they are asking to be violated it is NOT in any way their fault. We need to ask the questions of why the abuser thinks that something so immoral is okay to do to someone. “The right question is, ‘What made him think this is acceptable,”’ (The Nation). This is the approach we need to have on rape crimes, this does not put the blame on victims and it helps people to understand what they did was not okay for any
The first questions people usually ask about a rape crime are “What was the victim wearing?”, “Was the victim drunk?.” But these are the wrong questions that we ask, these questions make victims feel like them being sexually assaulted is there fault for wearing something revealing or drinking to much, but that does not mean they are asking to be violated it is NOT in any way their fault. We need to ask the questions of why the abuser thinks that something so immoral is okay to do to someone. “The right question is, ‘What made him think this is acceptable,”’ (The Nation). This is the approach we need to have on rape crimes, this does not put the blame on victims and it helps people to understand what they did was not okay for any