The book Stolen by Lucy Christopher is about a girl named Gemma who encounters an unusual man at the airport. The book starts out by her going to get some coffee and the man behind her offers to buy it for her. They sit down and talk for a little bit and in that moment when she wasn’t looking he slipped something in her drink. From then on everything was a blur. She then wakes up in an unfamiliar room. Gemma then finds out that she’s in the middle of nowhere. She has no place to go. Three signposts that are presented in this novel are memory moment, again and again, and contrasts and contradictions. These signposts show up throughout the book.
Memory moment pops up when Ty is explaining his childhood. This is a key moment because it is emphasized as important for the reader to know.Ty starts out by saying
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Something that is brought up is the idea of stolen. In one instance Ty hunts down a camel and Ty then asks Gemma what to name her. Gemma makes the remark saying to call her stolen just like her because he stole both of them. This idea is also shown when Gemma says she was stolen from her family. Ty believes he saved her from the city and her home but in reality he stole her. ‘“‘I’ve saved you from all that. Saved. Not stolen,””(Christopher 92). This is what Ty says responding to Gemma’s accusation. Gemma often thinks about her family and tries to forget about reality and remember little moments from her home. But, then she wakes up and sees that she is no longer there and is still stolen from what makes her happy.
A signpost that is important to the story is contrasts and contradictions. When Gemma is taken her first thing she thinks of when she sees Ty is that he is going to hurt her. “ At any moment you could come into that room with a knife,or a gun,or worse, (Christopher 21).” She is taken by surprise that he doesn’t. So Ty is a perfect example of doing something that contrasts to what you believe he will