The Girl with the Blackened eye

As morbid as it sounds, I enjoyed “The Girl with the Blackened Eye”. I thought the story was intense and probably one of the best pieces we have read in the class. I do not believe people write what they know, that is why it is called “creative writing”. I think that just being a woman, kid-napping, rape and abuse is something you fear. I think she wrote about something that she feared the most. Maybe kid-napping and rape is something she liked to write about, because it is intense and not many people talk about it.
Her other story we read was about a young girl being kidnapped. I think that Oates wrote off imagination of what could happen. I think she planed a scene in her head, her details are so specific, and then wrote about it. I think she played the whole story out in her head and then wrote it. She picked the place and carefully made the men who kidnapped the young girls.
I liked how detailed she was, it was more than the news would go. It seemed like it was really a victim telling the story. She even wrote the story in a cloudy state of mind.