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<\/p>\nI read Portia’s Choice; an account of a traumatic experience that adolescent Annie has with Gerry, an adult man. Gerry is Annie’s drama tutor, who preys on Annie’s romantic feelings for him and manipulates her to participate in sexual acts.\u00a0Annie personally recounts her experience, and tells of the regret her parents feel once they find out about her trauma. In the end, her mother confronts Gerry over the phone and finally ends the year-long trauma that Annie experienced.<\/p>\n
I mapped the various characters and whom they spoke with. As Annie notes, her parents feel responsible for not preventing and seeing the signs of this attack. What we see in this map that Annie\u2019s mother is at the heart of all these connections. She arranges Gerry\u2019s tutoring session with Gerry\u2019s mother, speaks with Gerry personally on several occasions, and is the sole parent to deal with the fallout. Perhaps being in this position, Annie\u2019s mother feels she solely failed to see what was going on.<\/p>\n
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What this map doesn\u2019t reveal is the frequency of the communication between the characters. In Annie\u2019s mother\u2019s defense, Annie hid the relationship from her and pursued it over a pay-phone at school: there was no way for her to know. Further, it\u2019s the secret relationship between Annie and Gerry that is central to this story and the map doesn\u2019t reveal this.<\/p>\n
Although, this map does reveal they secretive and unsuspecting way in which Gerry manipulated Annie. Further, it shows the unfortunate nature of this kind of trauma: it may be kept secret, even from those closest to the victim.<\/p>\n