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My Story By Elizabeth Smart Essay

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My Story by Elizabeth Smart was a book solely focused on her kidnapping and what happened throughout these nine months being away from her loved ones. Elizabeth Smart shows how strong she is through all the rapes and starvation and poverty she went through. Elizabeth is a 14 year old girl who loves her family so much she would do anything for them. She is a bright, beautiful, young girl who is in middle school, she is mormon and unconditionally in love with God. She is a normal teenager who is focused on school and loves her family and would do anything for them. This book is very intriguing because it hurts to know that there are so many people over the world being kidnapped, abused, and raped, day after day without anyone else knowing. Going …show more content…

Brian David Mitchell was a man who had a teenage conviction for pedophilia for exposing himself to a child, someone who had an addiction for drugs, alcohol, and pornography. Brian David Mitchell was a man who was selfish and never thought about anyone else's happiness but his own. He was lazy and did not work and only got things by stealing them. He claimed the Lord had told him he should have 7 pure wives and Elizabeth was the first. Mitchell was contracted by Elizabeth’s father to help fix some problems around her house where he took advantage of this opportunity by studying very thoroughly everything about Elizabeth. He learned where her room was, where she slept, how her house was set up and how he would break into her house to …show more content…

Elizabeth had a cable around her ankle that was connected to a tree so that she would not leave. When she stopped fighting back they gave her the liberty to do a few more things, but not enough get away from them. If Elizabeth was given a chance to get away Michael made it very clear that if she were to ever run away or let someone know that she was Elizabeth Smart he would kill her and her family. Therefore even if she got a chance to escape or to tell anyone who she really was and what was really happening she stayed quiet because of her

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