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Summary Of The Stolen Life By Jaycee Dugard

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Book Report A Stolen Life The Stolen Life is a memoir written by Jaycee Dugard. This story was published July 12, 2011. This book is a New York Times Best Seller and also was nominated for Goodreads Choice Awards Best Memoir & Autobiography. It takes place in the state of California in the year of 1991. The main character of the story is Jaycee Dugard. Some other important characters in this story are Phillip Garrido and Nancy Garrido. This story is based on Jaycee Dugard and how she spent her life most of her life. Jaycee was a average eleven year old girl with a normal life. She is very shy so it was hard for her to make friends in school. She lived with her mom, little sister, her cat monkey, and her step dad Carl …show more content…

Through out the book Jaycee wrote in a journal she hid from Phillip so she would remember things if she ever escaped. She recorded all the things she did, her dreams for the future and places she would go one day. Jaycee thought it was time for her kids to go to school to get an education. But Phillip thought it would be unhealthy for the kids to be exposed to the world. So he bought a computer and let her print out worksheets for them so they could get an education. He also bought learning software that the kids could go on. Phillip started a business called printing for less. It was a graphic design company. Jaycee would help him with his company sometimes She could have looked up her mother but Phillip scared her by telling her the computer monitored everything she did. The company didn't go that well. Eventually Phillip started taking the 3 girls out in the public. But Jaycee never tried to escape because she thought she had no place to go after if she …show more content…

She started screaming out loud over the phone her daughter was found. She was so happy. They made plans for Jaycee to go home. When the time came for her to finally meet her mother she was so happy and nervous. She was not sure if her mother would accept her daughters and she did not know if she would remember her. But in the end they both cried tears of joy. Now Jaycee wears a necklace that has a silver pine cone on it. It a symbol of the last thing she touched before being kidnapped {the sharp edge of a pine cone}. Phillip took a good chunk of this girl life away from her. She was not allowed to say her name or even write it down she had to hide her identity for a long time. She didn't learn adolescence trough her mom she learned it from being raped from strange man who changed her whole life upside down. She never got to got to experience high school. Her only source of education was a TV, the people around her, and the internet. Phillip took away 18 years of her life away from her and she was released at age

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