Summary

The narrator in “How Did I Get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State? It Was Easy” by Alice Walker grows up with her mother in a poor, African-American neighborhood in Washington D.C.  The narrator never knew her father and is not very close to her mother who is constantly working, having various jobs as a maid. When the narrator is 12 she is raped by a boy, but she never tells anyone about it. Later on, when the narrator is 14, her mother takes her to a house she works in. The narrator is fascinated by the house which is much cleaner than what she is used to. She plays with the owners’ children but never sees the husband. The next day, the husband, a lawyer she will later call Bubba, picks her up from school and rapes her. He gives her money and convinces her that he did ...

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