Analysis Of A Stolen Life

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“A Stolen Life” is a book written by Jaycee Dugard discussing her experience when she spent several years in abduction. She tells her story when she is 30 years old talking about the time she was seized to her present day and how she has not forgotten those feelings she had when she was abducted. She was kidnapped at a bus stop near her home in South Lake Tahoe, California, waiting to get picked up from school. She was only 11 years old when a stranger quickly grabbed her. She ends up in captivity for more than eighteen years and stayed in a tent behind Phillip Craig and Nancy Garrido’s home. She remembers her first few weeks of being kept naked and handcuffed in a shed. She mentions being abused sexually over and over again. She had her first daughter when she was 13 years old while she was held captive. The sexual harassment did not stop even after having her second child. She said it was to the point that going for a month without molestation was surprising. In this book, the writer gives a good description of her bravery and strength providing the details of how she felt then and how she feels now. Jaycee explains how she survived the traumatizing 18 eighteen years being locked up under dreadful conditions like having to depend on the same people who …show more content…

Dugard, who is the narrator and the main character in the book “A Stolen Life,” reveals her story about how she was abducted and held captive for 18 plus years. Towards the beginning of he book she says she was a young, innocent and good-looking girl, who was kidnapped at gunpoint, forced into a car and taken away. She gave a clear picture of her fears, happiness, and sorrows plus her mixed feelings about the whole thing. Ms. Dugard is a strong smart person who could get through issues no matter how tough they might be. Janet Maslin in the New York Times on July 17, 2011, said, “Her work is bold, classic and painstakingly realistic, even when recording the dull specifications of how she sojourned

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