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Plot Summary of Innocence Lost
"Abena Dickerson starts out her life as a normal, bright individual. With the sudden onset of clinical depression as a young teen, her life begins to spiral in the opposite direction. She finally gets back on track, after two pregnancies, loss of friends, family interventions, and soul searching."
Abena L. Dickerson, Resident Scholar




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Review Analysis of Innocence Lost
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Plot
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Kids: - trouble in college - trouble in high school - seducing/being seduced - rebelling against parent's expectations - first sexual experience - alienated from society
job/profession: - clerk
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Kind of living: - general poverty story
Family, hate Yes
The difficult family member - expects to be obeyed in all things - disapproves of life choices - disapproves of personality

Subject of Biography
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - student
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - obsessed
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity - Black
Nationality - American (!)
How sensitive is this person? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other people
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
Century: - 1980's-Present

Style
Book makes you feel? - in awe
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - impregnation/reproduction
Unusual Style: - a lot of stream of consciousness
Story of entire life, or part? - story of set of events during life
Autobiography? Yes
Is this an e-book? Yes
How much dialogue in bio? - significantly more descript than dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices? Yes
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