Response to "The Girl with the Blackened Eye"

The story is all about the narrator. She gives us vision into her story and also the audio to it. Her point of view is the first of the victim, then of an accomplice, then of just of someone looking into the past.

We learn about her character through the different traumatic events that happen to her. When she is abducted we learn she has spirit because she is scared and resisting at first. Then as she is held captive for a length of times she becomes almost like a paralytic. She didn't talk nor did she move much, but if she did it was very slowly. But in the end when she is looking back at all of it she is a completely different person. She shows us that our past doesn't define who we are but how we live our lives in the present does.

The physical conflict versus the psychological conflict is very present. The physical conflict is in this story all of the physical beatings and the rape that happened to her body, but the psychological is what those events and things did to her mind. Her body was showing all those different marks for a short period of time in her life. Lasting maybe a month in the span of time, but the trauma to her mind never went away even though she moved past it. You can tell this because even years after the event she still thinks back to it, As well, she never told anyone about it. Not her husband nor her kids. She keeps it locked away like an old vault that is never to be opened. You know it still affects her because if it didn't she wouldn't mind telling her husband at the very least. But she doesn't. She moved on but never moved past it.