Lucky Poem

You're not supposed to question,
You're supposed to just know.
When something is wrong,
You don't let it show.
When I am most scared,
how can you leave me to feel so alone?
These people act like I'm a freak;
They speak to me in monotone.
What don't you get?
I'm your baby girl.
Don't you believe me?
You don't know the world.
It's not like when you were a kid.
Life's not a safe place.
And because I was raped,
It shows on my face.
Don't be embarrassed when questions arise,
I'll answer them, but I will not tell lies.
It must be called RAPE.
Nothing else but what it is.
I didn't want this to happen,
The fault is all his.
I feel so betrayed by the ones that I love.
The feelings I have, they are forever void of.

Lucky Themes

I've been having many ideas jump out at me as a topic for my multigenre project. One idea I was thinking about reminded me of when I was a little kid. Children don't see or understand things the same way as adults. Alice brings this up when she says, "Until that day in the yard with my playmate I thought this was what fathers did" (45). So our project could be about Children's perceptions. Another idea, that Erinn actually came up with, was rape on college campuses. I've heard that Western is one of the schools with the highest percentage of rape victims in the United States. That can't be good but it would be nice to find out. She addresses this by saying, "At a small table near the door was the RSA-Resident Security Assistant" (23). I can't wait to hear what ideas the rest of my group members came up with.

Nonfiction

To me, nonfiction is common sense. Why would it not be literature? It is text. I would classify any form of text that isn't a story about something that could happen in reality as nonfiction, be it true or not. Any document, autobiography, poetry, etc. are nonfiction. I don't understand why it is being debated because I don't see a concrete argument that could be built besides anything other than the worldwide definition of what nonfiction is.