The Kidnapping Of Christina Lattimore Essay
10/28/08 Essay: period 6
There has been more than a thousand kidnappings through out the years, people make those mistakes and hurt them self and others. The book that I did my essay on is called The kidnapping Of Christina Lattimore by an amazing author, Joan Lowery Nixon. Christina was just one of those teens with dreams and tons of friends and was popular at school, until she had a turn around in her family’s life. Who would do such a thing, taking a young kid? Not even thinking about there future and what her future could be. This book is really good because it’s suspenseful and the vocabulary is great. The whole book it amazing. The setting was in a basement, some where on the city. Christina had always been with her best friend Christabel. Christabel had always been there for her, more then her own family was. Christina went to Christabel’s house to hangout. It hit 11:30 real fast, Christina’s curfew was at 11:45 and she lived right down the street. She got home and read her favorite book. She was always reading in her spare time. She had fallen a sleep and …show more content…
The guy that had took Christina had left and she knew it. She climbed up the stairs and stood up. She looked around for a second and she saw her phone on the kitchen counter. She grabbed it and saw that she had 23 missed calls. Mostly from Christabel of course, she called her mom and she didn’t answer. Then she called her dad and no answer from him ether. She called Christabel and she answered right away. She tried to tell her the story but couldn’t. Christabel asked where she was at and came right away. “Minutes later she’s outside, I turn the dead bold on the front door.” (229) Christina and Christabel ran to the car and went to her house. No one was home but the maid. Christina’s parents got home and they were so happy to see
There has been more than a thousand kidnappings through out the years, people make those mistakes and hurt them self and others. The book that I did my essay on is called The kidnapping Of Christina Lattimore by an amazing author, Joan Lowery Nixon. Christina was just one of those teens with dreams and tons of friends and was popular at school, until she had a turn around in her family’s life. Who would do such a thing, taking a young kid? Not even thinking about there future and what her future could be. This book is really good because it’s suspenseful and the vocabulary is great. The whole book it amazing. The setting was in a basement, some where on the city. Christina had always been with her best friend Christabel. Christabel had always been there for her, more then her own family was. Christina went to Christabel’s house to hangout. It hit 11:30 real fast, Christina’s curfew was at 11:45 and she lived right down the street. She got home and read her favorite book. She was always reading in her spare time. She had fallen a sleep and …show more content…
The guy that had took Christina had left and she knew it. She climbed up the stairs and stood up. She looked around for a second and she saw her phone on the kitchen counter. She grabbed it and saw that she had 23 missed calls. Mostly from Christabel of course, she called her mom and she didn’t answer. Then she called her dad and no answer from him ether. She called Christabel and she answered right away. She tried to tell her the story but couldn’t. Christabel asked where she was at and came right away. “Minutes later she’s outside, I turn the dead bold on the front door.” (229) Christina and Christabel ran to the car and went to her house. No one was home but the maid. Christina’s parents got home and they were so happy to see