Summary Of Stolen Life By Jaycee Dugard

stolen life is an autobiography by Jaycee Dugard. The autobiography focused on Jaycee Dugard 18 years in captivity. Jaycee’s family thought for 18 years she had been killed, when in fact she had been living with Nancy and Phillip Garrido. She lived in Tahoe where she was abducted and eventually moved to Antioch California.

2.) The novel is organized into chapters, and at the end of each there is her reflection of the incident. She titles the chapters based on major events that occurred during her captivity. The chapters are organized in chronological order and vary in length some chapters were really long and others were short. Her reflections tell the reader what she is thinking and how it has affected her up till today, sometimes she even

Phillip and Nancy were the kidnappers and the antagonist, the author portrays them as bad and good people. They provided Jaycee with essential materials and sometime even gave her luxuries. However, the physical and emotional abuse towards her was horrible. Philip was a dynamic character his personality and attitude changed throughout the story, Nancy was a flat character who was really quiet and barely spoke. Jaycee was the protagonist and was a dynamic character. Her two daughters were flat characters who didn't speak much, and her mom was a flat character that didn't speak much but had a huge impact on Jaycee. Phillip Garrido was a man who had a lot of psychological problems and kidnapped Jaycee for his personal use as a sex slave. He was a pedophile, manipulating, drug abuser. He is described with brown hair and blue eyes. Jaycee claims that when he is not using her for sex he is a funny man that always makes her laugh. “He sees me hesitating and picks up the stun gun.” Phillip was really selfish and punished Jaycee whenever she refused or struggled to do what he asked. Nancy Garrido is also an antagonist she helped Phillip kidnapped Jaycee. She was a quite, dangerous, and selfish girl. She is described with brown hair and brown eyes who rarely spoke much. Jaycee claims that Nancy didn't really like her because Philip spent a lot of time with her, but, she always

“As you can see, although I’ve always loved writing I’m not the best speller, as this cover shows.” Throughout the book she would include pictures of her personal diary that she kept during captivity and there were a lot of spelling mistakes. When she had to go on “runs” with Philip she always used imagery to describe the pain she felt and when she was being kidnapped she used imagery to describe the stun gun he used to capture her. She used similis when she had sex with Philip. The language is plain throughout the book with a few figurative language. The diction shows her education level. There was no dialogue throughout the novel since it was her remembering past events that occurred to