Thursday, October 2, 2014

A Stolen Life (Summer reading response)

     You never would expect to be kidnapped from your family and treated as a slave. But that is the exact thing that happened to Jaycee Dugard, abducted at age 11 on June 10th 1991. She was abused raped, and held captive in a mans backyard. No one would ever think to be abducted and live to tell the story. Jaycee was young but was very brave and faithful but soon got accustomed to how things worked in Phillip Garrido's backyard.
     For example, in the book Phillip used to rape her almost everyday when he first abducted her. He took showers with her, he bathed her, bought her food but sometimes he forgot, he made tapes with her of him doing nasty things, He did drugs infront of her, he tied her and handcuffed her to surfaces until she got trusted. So that proves that she got accustomed to things and she did it quickly. She often got lonely and sad in there because she missed her family. She got Pregnant twice and at a very young age, and Phillip sexually violated her a severe amount of times. Even though she was held for about 17 years in the same backyard she stayed full of faith and kept telling herself she wasn't going to be left there and her family will find her. Jaycee was so optimistic and lighthearted she even forgave Phillip Garrido for what he did! She always followed directions and was a quick learner, her efforts and braveness won here treats maybe fast food or ice cream.
       Even with all those harmful things Phillip did, Jaycee found in her heart to forgive the man that literally stole her life. She didn't have much experiences. High school, Junior highschool, college, it was like she was wiped of the world with no trace of her anywhere, but then they found her.

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