Summary Of Capt No More

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children around 800,000 children are reported missing each year. Most of these cases are resolved within hours or days, but in serious cases they could last weeks months or years. The article “Captive No More” By Alex Tresniowski writes about how Jaycee Dugard was one of those children kidnapped. She is dragged into a gray sedan by Phillip Garrido, a federal kidnapper and sex offender right in front of her stepfather's eyes. At first, the search to find her was strong. People put posters up all over and looked and looked for her, but as years went on most hope was lost. According to statistics, 74 % of the people abducted after 3 hours were murdered dead so many people had given up.

But the unbelievable happened. Jaycee and her 2 daughter were attending Garrido’s parole hearing for previous crimes, when Dugard’s kidnapper Phillip Garrido, admitted to kidnapping her when she was only 11 in 1991. This made national news for no one had been kidnapped for that long, 18 years, and returned safely. This was a shock and joy to Dugard's mother. Like in Dugard's scenario, “The Seventh Man” , written by Haruki Murakami also went through a tragedy and had to cope with the aftermath. The seventh man, whose real name we do not know, watched his best friend K get sucked up in a tidal wave and killed. He had a very hard time dealing with the loss of his friend and it changes his life. Saying this Dugard and The Seventh Men both went through events that changed their lives

For 18 years Dugard was brainwashed and manipulated that this was just normal. She is brainwashed to stay with Garrido and pledge her allegiance to him. While this is a disturbing thought, it is the harsh truth. Most kidnappers that want to keep their victim use tactics to manipulate them and make them want to stay. Dugard now has anger and regrets that she listened to Garrido, because she has multiple chances to escape but is too brainwashed to run. She also has occasional flashbacks that remind her of the terrible conditions of her living. But thanks to therapy, Dugard is able to cope and get over her anger. To regain trust with people, she begins animal therapy by riding or petting horses with her mother Terry and her sister Shayna. At first it is hard but over time it becomes much easier. As Dugard's mother urges: “You have to understand that what she did, she did to survive. And one more thing. Therapy, therapy, therapy. . . .” (Tresniowski 5). On the other end , The Seventh Man also has to learn to cope. After his friend K gets sucked into the ocean, he goes into a very deep stage of shock and depression. The Seventh Man copes, but sometimes in unhealthy ways. For example, The Seventh man feels like he cannot bare the sight of where the tragedy happened. As Marukami states “At the end of the year I pleaded with my parents to let me move to another town.”