Black Ice, an autobiography about a woman's, Lorene Cary's, educational experience, is based on the underlying story of a little girl name Izzy. Entering a prestigious, predominantly white, former all boys" school, Cary, fifteen years later, records her personal incidents at St. Paul's. During her time at St. Paul's, our author discovers that a story she once based a large part of her life on was a fallacy, and transforms herself into the woman she is today. .
Concentrating on a small part of her emotionally growth, Cary portrays herself as a hard working, young girl who stores a lot of her troubles within herself. Like most adolescences her age, she trusts no one. After Lorene Cary attended St. Paul's for almost a year, she felt the pressure set in and removed herself from her busy life to comfort her fears. During this time, Cary regurgitates stories, which have influenced her core. From the stories, the one that allows us to understand why she is emotionally reserved is about a little girl, Izzy, and her father. Dealing with a traumatizing event this girl experiences and the powerful lesson that is implanted into her, it can be assumed that as a child, Cary could have taken this story seriously causing her to also digest the lesson and preach it in throughout her life. The story was told to her by her Grandfather, being that the moral of the story was to trust no man, it's interesting to see that a man would be tell this story. By a male telling the story one might connect that a man would know best about not trusting their sex, this too could have influenced the author's view on men. Cary makes clear that she too learned the lesson that Izzy learned from the event.
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There was a man whose daughter is standing at the top of some steps [ ] and the child's name is Izzy. Now the father told the girl to jump down the steps [ ]"Jump, Izzy, jump" [ ]"Papa's got you Papa"ll catch you.
