A Stolen Life Analysis
Protagonist Paragraph The protagonist of A Stolen Life is Jaycee Dugard. In this autobiography of her being kidnapped, she expresses her inner emotion and her road to recovery after her captivity. When she was kidnapped she was only 11 years old and when she finally got freed she was 29 years old. At the beginning of A Stolen Life, it was evident that Jaycee was naive. She did not have “the word “rape” in [her] vocabulary,” so she had no idea of what rape was (Dugard 33). Times when she still thought about all the things Phillip did to her, she feels “small and helpless” again (Dugard 33). She was also dependent on Phillip for everything based on her age and her ability to do things. She had no “house... real family...friends” and everything
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On Monday, June 10, 1991, Phillip kidnapped Jaycee while she was walking to school. Phillip and his wife held Jaycee, later known as Allissa as a false identity, captive for 18 years. Phillip is responsible for abusing Jaycee emotionally, physically, as well as mentally. Jaycee tells her audience that Phillip “seemed like a nice guy when he wasn’t using [her] for sex” (Dugard 34). Phillip continuously “manipulated” her for what he wanted, and she did not realize it until later because in a way, “he made [her] feel special” (Dugard 49, 55). Phillip can also be described as controlling. After Jaycee had her first daughter, he wants them (he, Nancy, A, and Jaycee) to be a normal family. He makes A grow up thinking that Jaycee, known now as Allissa, is her sister and that Nancy is her mother. When the second baby, G, comes, he still does not allow them to do anything. He is afraid that Jaycee will get to smart, which deprived the girls of getting an education.
Conflict Paragraph The conflict of A Stolen Life is an external conflict. The conflict is between Jaycee and the Garridos. The conflict revolves around Phillip Garrido kidnapping Jaycee and “stealing [her] life and the life [she] should have had with [her] family” (Dugard ix). Phillip, during Jaycee’s captivity, raped her, mentally abused her, and physically abused her. Phillip believes that the “angels” are responsible for his actions. Phillip and Nancy are responsible for Jaycee’s problems because during the time of her kidnapping, she was physically, emotionally, and mentally abused for the entire 18 years.
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On Monday, June 10, 1991, Phillip kidnapped Jaycee while she was walking to school. Phillip and his wife held Jaycee, later known as Allissa as a false identity, captive for 18 years. Phillip is responsible for abusing Jaycee emotionally, physically, as well as mentally. Jaycee tells her audience that Phillip “seemed like a nice guy when he wasn’t using [her] for sex” (Dugard 34). Phillip continuously “manipulated” her for what he wanted, and she did not realize it until later because in a way, “he made [her] feel special” (Dugard 49, 55). Phillip can also be described as controlling. After Jaycee had her first daughter, he wants them (he, Nancy, A, and Jaycee) to be a normal family. He makes A grow up thinking that Jaycee, known now as Allissa, is her sister and that Nancy is her mother. When the second baby, G, comes, he still does not allow them to do anything. He is afraid that Jaycee will get to smart, which deprived the girls of getting an education.
Conflict Paragraph The conflict of A Stolen Life is an external conflict. The conflict is between Jaycee and the Garridos. The conflict revolves around Phillip Garrido kidnapping Jaycee and “stealing [her] life and the life [she] should have had with [her] family” (Dugard ix). Phillip, during Jaycee’s captivity, raped her, mentally abused her, and physically abused her. Phillip believes that the “angels” are responsible for his actions. Phillip and Nancy are responsible for Jaycee’s problems because during the time of her kidnapping, she was physically, emotionally, and mentally abused for the entire 18 years.
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