RJ5

Book Title: The Pact

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The section i read just recently was about Chris Harte's beginning life in jail. The story flashes back on when Chris and Emily first make love. And it also talks about how Emily was raped when she was a little girl.

What does the story make you think about and why?
This story makes me frightened because of how Emily gets raped. It just makes me think about if i were to be raped. Emily then was only nine, and being that small I surely wouldn't know what to do. The way that she was raped, which I don't want to describe, makes me want to vomit and cry. It makes me question, why a grown up man would want to touch a nine year old like that? Raping around the world, I believe, are just cruel. These people who rape innocent children or adults should be jailed and even persecuted for life.

What do you like or not like about the story? Why?
I don't like the fact that Emily kept a lot of secrets to her boyfriend and not being honest to him, but instead suicidal and such. She should've told him that she didn't want to have sex because of rape. She never even told him she was raped. I can't believe he thought she was crying for joy but really, she was scared because all she could think about was the rape that happened to her as a child. I believe Chris had a right to know.Emily let him have sex with her because she knew that it was for love, not for the joy of sex.