Compare Contrast Essay Where are the Children? Imagine having a birthday, and baking a cake with loved ones. Walking back to the car with all the materials to find the car empty. Where are the children? This is what happened to Nancy Harmon in the book Where are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark. Seven years after this horrific incident she has two more kids, Missy and Michael. She sends them outside to play for a little bit and then reads the newspaper with an article of her from the trial. Horrified, she burns it and quickly goes to get her kids, but she's too late. She has to use all her power to think of someone who could have taken her kids, and fast. Nancy Harmon had a hard life, she was forever sick in college, lost her mother in a car accident, had her kids Peter and Lisa kidnapped and killed, her husband killed himself, and she is put on death row for the murder of her kids. Due to the fact that Rob legler, her prosecuter left the country, she was …show more content…
Her feelings only grow when she reads the newspaper and finds the Harmon trial on the front page. She quickly goes to get her kids in panic fearing that they are in danger. She is too late, by the time she is in the backyard, they are gone and all that is left is Missy's red mitten. She goes into shock and has a hard time speaking and remembering. Throughout the book she is in shock and the police have to drug her in order to help her remember her past. At the end of the book, she finds out that her first husband is not dead, and that he has her children. She also finds out that Carl, her first husband, murdered her mom and her other kids. This is a lot for anyone to take in and even after Missy and Michael are safe at home, she is still unable to understand what just