Book Summary: Missing Child By Jane Johnson

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Journal 1 Every 40 seconds in the United States, a child becomes missing or is abducted. Without knowing it, Jane Johnson was part of this statistic. Jane Johnson was living a normal life: going to high school, crushing on boys, eating dinner with her loving parents, until one day she recognized herself in a picture she had never seen before. The picture she saw was a “missing child” ad on the back of a milk carton. Jane then went on a pursuit to find the truth. She needed to find out if she had another family, and if she did, how she was diverted from them. In this report I will be evaluating the author's plot development, questioning Jane’s motives, and predicting the outcome of Jane’s decisions. The premise of this book is a pair of seemingly doting parents raising and caring for a kidnapped girl. The author had many paths to …show more content…

I have a few predictions as to how this conversation could go. Jane’s biological mom could hang-up figuring that the call was just a sick joke played on one of the neighborhood “I-think-tormenting-other-people-is-funny” pranksters ☺. I would be hard to believe that her abducted daughter was calling twelve years after she was taken. I wouldn’t blame her for figuring such. Another possible outcome of Jane’s phone call is that she calls the police. If I heard one of my long-lost relatives over the phone, I would call the police and try to track them down immediately. If she does call the police though, Jane will most likely be taken away from her current parents, which is exactly what Jane doesn’t want. Jane describes these feelings about her current parents by saying: “They raised me. They love me. I love them. Mother and Daddy are all I have, and all I want” (Cooney 92). Whichever course this conversation takes, it will be a significant in not only the live of Jane’s biological mother, but for Jane because she will have connected with her real

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