Analysis Of The Face On The Milk Carton

My favorite literary character is Janie Johnson, from the book The Face on The Milk Carton. The authors used one type of craft that really stands out to me which is a flashback. The plot of the story is that Janie Johnson discovers at the school, she was kidnapped, took away from her loved ones. Janie didn’t find out from her “parents” she was kidnapped but by the picture behind a milk carton found in the school’s cafeteria. Long story short Janie wants answers so she sets out on an unforgetable journey to her birthplace and starts getting flashbacks. Flashbacks are a crucial part of the author's craft because the flashbacks give us information of Janie’s point of view and how she felt when remembering all these memories and the objects
around her. In the story it stated on page 162 that Janie remembers taking a family photo with her real family and remembering the exact words that were spoken “ The photographer shouted, “Smile now, Smile everybody.” This sentence shows us that flashbacks are important for us to comprehend the text. If I was able to meet Janie Johnson, I would ask her how did it feel knowing you had different parents? I would ask her this because in the story, Janie is very shocked when she found out that she was kidnapped. Not only would I ask her this, but also ask her, what made you want to drive to another state to find your real family? I wonder this because in the story, she drives to another state with her two friends in a quest to find her birth parents. Imagine if you were Janie a young 15 year old with almost no knowledge of the real world. Not only not having that much experience with the real world but Janie was going to a whole different state to some stranger's house to ask for her real parents. In the book she was told by her grandma that he real mom was apart of a cult. Okay let’s backtrack to her situation that Janie has at hand. Running away from home at age 15 with no knowledge on where you going or whose going to there, also Janie could be risking her own life trying to find her real parents.