Chapters 1 through 3 Summary and Analysis

Alice says she remembers the moments leading up to her rape, the rape, and the events after clearly. She is warned that he'll kill her if she screams, but she does so anyway. Her rapist knocks her down and tells her he has a knife. He uses her long hair to hold onto her. He knocks her down, bangs her head onto the ground, and she briefly loses consciousness. She says she wakes staring into the eyes of the man who has the power to kill her and signs herself over to him, knowing that she is about to die. She does everything he commands though she continues to tell him that she's a virgin and to beg for both her life and her virginity.

Her rapist forces her to kiss him ,and she allows him whatever response she...