When I
read this short piece, the thing that kept popping into my mind was, “wow that
sounds dangerous”. In this piece Perillo addresses the dangers of hitchhiking as
well as other things that she has learned from her own experience of it.
However, she shrugs them off as if it were no big deal. For example, Lucy, one
of Perillo’s roommates in Vermont, made a living making vests and used
hitchhiking to get them to people. Lucy had been recently raped while
hitchhiking, yet she still did it. She says that the good feeling she gets from
hitchhiking is why she still does it, but my question is, why? It may be one
thing to enjoy doing something, but once it has put you in danger, would you really
still enjoy it?
I like this response, but I'd also like to see a bit more of the kind of stuff we talked about in class. You identify one of the main points, but maybe think a little bit about the way the essay is coming across, the way the speaker is coming across. So, when you mention the trauma, you might talk a little bit about how Perillo relates that trauma. And it will help to quote directly from the text.
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