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Couch

This object symbolizes trust. When Allison Huguet fell asleep on this object on the night of September 24, 2010 in her friend Beau Donaldson's apartment, she trusted him implicitly not to harm her. After all, they had been platonic and close friends since the first grade. Allison's feelings of horror and betrayal are palpable in the text when Krakauer describes Allison's experience of waking up two hours later to find she is being raped by her longtime friend.

Pair of jeans

This object symbolizes the objectification of women and the conquest culture. This object is stolen from an unconscious Kaitlyn Kelly's dorm room after she is violently sexually assaulted by Calvin Smith, whom she meets for the first time on the way back to her dorm one night. The depositions of those present at the perpetrator's apartment that night state that Smith "took them as a trophy of his...

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