The book “Girl In The Woods” was written by Aspen Matis. Aspen tells a true story about her life in college. On her second night in college she was raped, and afterwards she felt extremely alone and hurt. She didn’t know how to cope with such a terrible thing happening to her, so she fled to the Mexican border and started a 2,650 mile long trek across the United States all the way up to Canada. As imagined, this is an incredibly challenging task, mentally, physically, and emotionally. Throughout this book, she explains all the troubles she encountered, but most of all how the trek transformed her. With the use of the transformations that she encountered, she successfully told an amazing story about how she coped with feeling scared, lonely, and depressed.
Aspen learned a lot through her journey. She originally began the experience because she felt lonely and weak due to the rape, and her parent’s disappointing reaction when she told them what had happened. She used lots of negative diction in the beginning of the book, which really showed how much was struggling. However, once she started her trek, she began using more positive and uplifting diction, showing how much stronger she felt once she was forced to come to terms with her situation. She additionally compared and contrasted her feelings before the trek, with her feelings after the trek. In the beginning, she was depressed, lonely, and scared; but after, she felt strong. With the use of shifting diction, and juxtaposition, she successfully showed how much the journey helped her confidence.
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