Lucky

Style and Technique

«Lucky» by Alice Sebold is written in an autobiographical style, detailing the author's personal experience with rape and its consequences. The narrative style is straightforward and candid, allowing readers to deeply connect with the author's emotional state. The language is rich with details that help create a vivid and realistic picture of the events. Sebold uses flashbacks and retrospectives to show how the traumatic event affected her life in the long term. The narrative structure is non-linear, allowing the author to move between different time periods and events, creating a multi-layered story. Literary devices such as symbolism and metaphors are used to convey the depth of the author's experiences and inner world. The book also contains elements of a legal drama, adding tension and dynamism to the narrative.