Exposed

i recently finished the book Exposed and it was really good. it was about two best friends named Kate and Liz. Kate is an amazing dancer who dates every girls jock dream (Trevor), Liz is a promising photographer who dates the sweetest guy ever (Brian). Kate and Liz have been best friends since they were 6 and tell each other everything. they have a sleep over at Liz's house 1 Saturday a month, one day when they are having a sleep over they start talking about college (since they are seniors. Liz wants to go to a photo and Kate says how she doesn't want to major in dance and is thinking about quitting. Liz gets so mad because Kate is amazing and she just starts yelling at her and saying she doesn't take risks. it ends with Liz going to her room upstairs and Liz staying downstairs, and she is gone in the morning. Liz says shes sorry but Kate just avoids and ignores her. 

Liz can't take it anymore and she hears from Amanda (a friend of theirs) that the reason Kate isn't talking to hr is because her and Mike (Liz's older brother) had a wild time when Liz was upstairs. Trevor finds out and says he'll forgive her, but she breaks up with them. when Liz  confronts Kate about making it a big deal, she says she got rapped by Mike. but when she goes to Mike he says that he didn't rape her they just had sex. she is stuck between the 2 people she loves the most, and doesn't know who to believe. at first she thinks Kate is making it up to hide her shame, but then she believes that her brother did it. this makes me think about the world and rape in general.


when is it considered violation? what makes you believe a person? what  drives a person towards rape? what drives a person to lie about being raped? does shame play a part in it?