A Stolen Life

Hello everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving. It was great to have a week of relaxation from everything, I know that I was in desperate need of a break. Coming back to school was hard as always but at least at my school we are starting a new trimester. Anyway, sorry about not posting recently. In my Language Arts class we were focusing on the final and our portfolios.

This blog will be about a book that I recently finished, it is called A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard. I have been looking for a way to challenge myself when picking out books and reading. Someone in my class gave a book talk about this book and I thought that it would be a good challenge for me. For those of you who haven't heard about Jaycee's story, she was kidnapped at age 11 and held captive for 18 years until she was finally discovered. She was hidden in the man's backyard in the shed. What was so astonishing about her story is that this man was on parole for the kidnapping of another girl and parole officers were frequently visiting the house. He would rape her all of the time resulting in two children. Jaycee had her first daughter at age 14. Overall the book is just about her experiences and how she survived.

I remember hearing about it all over the news when they found her and then that she had written a book about her experiences. I knew that when I heard this that I wanted to read that book, I had no idea how hard it would be though. This book was challenging for me to read in a few ways. First of all it is hard to read about something that actually happened and was so horrible. It was hard to imagine such horrible conditions and it was also kind of scary. I had a hard time relating to it because I have nothing to compare what she went through to my life. The other way that it was challenging for me was that I am not used to reading books that are autobiography's  although I think that I will try to read more books like that. I would recommend this book to people that are old enough for this material but I think that it is a good book because it made me think about how lucky I am. Thanks for reading! :)