that; he can’t have me. It would mean he had won' (Dugard, 2011, para. 1). This is how Jaycee Lee Dugard feels about her kidnapper, Phillip Garrido, after being held captive for eighteen years of her life. The crimes of Phillip Garrido should have easily been prevented if law enforcement, parole officers, and other officials would have done their jobs correctly. Not only could have the kidnapping been completely prevented, but ill-fated Jaycee Dugard should have been found within the first two years
Jaycee’s full name was Jaycee Lee Dugard and she grew up close to Lake Tahoe, California (editors). Jaycee lived a pretty normal childhood until, doing things normal children did, until one day her life was stolen (editors). This project is going to tell her story the way she wrote it in her book, A Stolen Life. It will also have information from her childhood times, before the kidnapping as well as her life after she got her life back. Most of the information in this paper will come directly from
Kidnapping is taking someone away illegally by force, typically to obtain a ransom or personal use. For people to kidnap and keep a person for many years there has to a problem or reason for doing so. In 1977 and 1991 kidnappings occurred that shared many similarities. In 1977 Colleen Stan was kidnapped by Cameron and Janice Hooker for seven years. Being his slave and used for sexual activities. In 1991 Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped by Phillip and Nancy Garrido when she was only eleven years old and
Part A: A Stolen Life by Jaycee Lee Dugard is an autobiography recounting the chilling memories that make up the author’s past. She abducted when she was eleven years old by a man named Phillip Garrido with the help of his wife Nancy. “I was kept in a backyard and not allowed to say my own name,” (Dugard ix). She began her life relatively normally. She had a wonderful loving mother, a beautiful baby sister,, and some really good friends at school. Her outlook on life was bright until June 10th,
family for 18 years? You would not enjoy that. No one one wants to go through life being scared and uncomfortable. That is exactly what Jaycee Dugard went through. The plot and theme of this book is important because it shows toughness and endurance. It shows that every bad situation it worth a fight. A Stolen Life, by Jaycee Dugard, is a heart wrenching book. Jaycee gets abducted at age eleven, on her way to school, by a man she does not know. She was held captive and raped for eighteen years and in
Obscuring Online Identities In the midst of her two loyal and dependable friends, Jayde wouldn’t back down. The way the girls had always sneered and bumped past her weak shoulders, which was weighed by the bulging backpack, used to make her want to shrink behind the towering stack of textbooks planted on her rickety desk. The slight squeeze between the tightly held hands, wet from the beads of nervous sweat, was just enough to ensure Jayde that she wasn’t alone. Jayde was ready to fight back and
“The learned helplessness phenomenon is proposed as a model for the emotional numbing and maladaptive passivity sometimes following victimization” (Peterson 103). Learned helplessness as stated in Martin Seligman’s research was basically people experience learned help-lessness as thinking that the test they had was impossible. According to what I researched, making them have a tendency to give up easily or fail more often at somewhat eas¬ier tasks. Learned helplessness is more likely to result from
According to the FBI’s Hostage Barricade Database System, 73% of hostages display no sign of Stockholm syndrome (G. Dwayne Fuselier. 1999) My aim was to find out the root causes of the condition, to help myself and others to better understand this unique phenomenon established on the evidence discovered from my research. The research uncovered numerous discoveries that affected the way I exhibited my research project outcome. The information I came by proposed that Stockholm syndrome is more common
Is trauma really just a bad thing or is it able to do good? Have Jaycee Dugard and her family been left traumatized or are they normal? In Freedom by Jaycee Dugard is an autobiography discussing Jaycee’s first experiences after being saved from captivity eighteen years later. Jaycee Dugard moves past trauma in order to improve a stronger mental strength. Jaycee’s mother moved past the trauma of losing her daughter, only to discover her eighteen years later, demonstrating her mental stability. Jaycee’s
Jocelyn was when the doors were unlocked. One day Jocelyn went downstairs looking for Castro but she noticed he wasn’t there she went to her mother and told her that his car wasn’t there then Amanda told her to go look in the backyard, garage and look around the house in other places because he’s there. But when she returned to her mother she told her she couldn’t find him Amanda was skittish to leave her room but she did. Then she went downstairs to the front door and tried to open the screen door
publicity surrounding a series of kidnappings of young boys. During this time the parents of the victims created foundation to assist in finding other children and brought the subject to the attention of national authorities, including congressional panels. They helped to stimulate the passage of laws and authorized new FBI oversight and provided funding for a new agency, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.http://origins.osu.edu/article/child-kidnapping-america/page/0/1 http://origins