Jaycee Dugard's A Stolen Life

The story of myself, Kayana Janis begins in 1991 in Pine Ridge South Dakota. 1991 was the year my parents, Louis and Luwana got together. When my parents first got together my mother was finishing her social work degree and my father was working odd jobs. Despite their financial situation they decided to start a family together. At that time my father had already had a son named LeRoy from a previous relationship. In March of 1992 my parents had their first daughter together, they decided to name her Kailyn. After Kailyn’s birth my parents decided to get married. Their plan was set in stone on February 18 1993. 3 years later my parents decided to expand their family. I was born on September 16 1996, I was named Kayana after my dads close cousin Kayann.

The documentary titled “Code Black” by Ryan McGarry is about his experiences while he was a resident at LA County General. Code Black in the medical world means a patient is in a cardiac arrest and suffering so greatly that it requires many physicians, nurses, and a whole team of providers trying to save a patient. The entire documentary is based on what LA County General hospital is all about or even maybe other Emergency room hospital setting.

The steam from the kettle had condensed on the cold window and was running down the glass in tear-like trickles. Outside in the orchard the man from the smudge company was refilling the posts with oil. The greasy smell from last night’s burning was still in the air. Mr. Delahanty gazed out at the bleak darkening orange grove; Mrs. Delahanty watched her husband eat, nibbling up to the edges of the toast, then staking the crusts about his tea cup in a neat fence-like arrangement.

Annie Dillard’s “This is the Life”, an addition to the publication of “A Journal of Art and Religion”, Dillard persuades the readers to ponder the purpose of their lives. Dillard provokes self-contemplation through asking and repeating rhetorical questions and phrases, illusions that support her point, and an inspirational didactic tone.

The Book Thief, is a Death narrated novel by Markus Zusak. The story takes place in Nazi Germany, 1939, where Liesel Meminger arrives on Himmel Street to start a new life with her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann. She lives to a very old age and when Death finally comes to take her away, he wants to tell Liesel about beauty and brutality. But what could he tell her about beauty and brutality that she didn’t know, the Book Thief had lived through it all. The time she saw Max marching to Dachau, the time Rudy went into the Amper River to save The Whistler, and the final moments she spent with Mama. Liesel Meminger’s life had always represent beauty in the wake of brutality.

The Book Thief is about a young German girl named Liesel Meminger as she goes through life while living in Germany in 1939. Liesel and her foster parents live a normal life on 33 Himmel Street. There is only one difference between their family and the others, they are hiding Max Vandenburg (a Jewish man) in their basement during the time of the Holocaust. This story, narrated by Death follows the life of Liesel from her first step into 33 Himmel Street, until the day she died in Sydney, Australia.

People in this story live in a very dis honest world, it's a rough life and it's almost impossible to live comfortably and make an honest living. Jurgis tried to be an honest working man but all the frauds and dishonest people around him made an influence. You see the dishonesty throughout the book cover to cover. Jurgis has several encounters with people who constantly try to cheat him out of his money or are dishonest about their intentions. You can see one encounter in the early pages of the book when jurgis and his family first arrive to america, they're looking for kettles and pots for there new house and the man that they bought them from cheated them out of a few pots. You can also see this late story when jurgis is trying to get his 100 dollars changed the man he asked him to change it. The man took the money from him and changed him 95 cents.

After reading the memoir titled The Heroin Diaries, in which the author, Nikki Sixx, presents a first hand account of his battles with heroin addiction over the course of one year, we must incorporate certain concepts in order to better understand his condition. In this essay I will explore concepts such as empathy, self responsibility and personal identity as identified in Identity and Agency: Conceptual Lessons for the Psychiatric Ethics of Patient Care as well as the concepts of detached and affective blame brought forth by Hannah Pickard in Responsibility Without Blame: Philosophical Reflections on Clinical Practice. Through exploration of these concepts I will show how they apply to Nikki Sixx and his seemingly endless battles with addiction.

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, 1991, the day of her abduction. The story was published a little while after her liberation from the backyard nightmare. She attended multiple therapy sessions to help her cope before she had the courage to share her amazing story. For example she

Boy21, written by Matthew Quick is a book about a kid named Finley that has a love for basketball. He has played the game ever since his mothers murdering and he would do anything to play basketball. But, then something drastic changes him forever. A boy by the name of Russ Washington comes to his city to live with his grandparents. Russ is a nationally recruited basketball but he was no interest after the murdering of his parents. Finley’s job is to look after Russ and to persuade him to play basketball again. But, there is one catch. Russ plays the same position as Finley and wears the same number. That would mean that Finley would be the odd one out. Finley still helps Russ knowing what it feels like to have a loved one murdered. Because

5. In “The Life You Save My Be Your Own”, selfish motives alienate Shiflet from others and from God. He works for Mrs. Crater only to have the car; on par with modernity, his labor is not rewarded in itself but only for what it can earn him. He even goes to the extreme in marrying Lucynell for the car, proving that he will manipulate situations and people to get what he wants. His disregard for Lucynell makes it easy for him to abandon her. So blinded by his own desires, he fails to see how he has distanced himself from others and God. He picks up the boy only to boast of his decency, and his fruitless advice does not fool the child. The absurdity of him praying for sinners when he has proven himself to be one conveys how the changing times distance people from morality. In “The River”, Bevel’s spectacle leads others astray and fatally confuses Harry. Mrs. Connin seems to ascribe more to Bevel’s sensationalism than true faith, and she does not see how his undermining desires of authority and status. Mrs. Connin’s

Sharon 's biological father was horrid to her throughout her childhood. Sharon often refuses to make any mention to her biological father, but those she have been terrible. Sharon’s father would never be in her children’s life, but the impacts he had on her are still present in her life today. Sharon’s mother, Marilyn, has worked very hard to keep her family together. Marilyn has always been a caring woman with a full heart. Marilyn is the storyteller of the family with her grandchildren being her primary source material. Sharon is a mix of the good and bad in her life. Together Jayson’s mother and father have shaped who he is and how he see’s the world much how their ancestors before them have.

The book A Stolen Life is about Jaycee Dugard, who is also the author. The genre of the book is fiction and is an autobiography. The book is about Jaycee Dugard who lived in South Lake Tahoe, California. While walking to school one day Jaycee was abducted by Philip and Nancy Garrido and held captive in a room on their property for eighteen years. Throughout captivity Jaycee was sexually assaulted many times by Philip.

“It’s amazing how much one person can change the world, even if they don’t know they’re doing it.” This is what a very intelligent and politically smart teenager named Kate Quinn says in the novel The Wrong Side of Right by Jenn Marie Thorne. This book is based off of love & romance. There are also many complex events and the character development is so realistic that you could picture everything happening in your mind. Especially Kate, having such an interesting life. Even though this novel is fiction the book has practical life problems and relationships.

Teju Cole’s phenomenally written original novel majorly takes place in New York City. Cole character was easy to relate to because of his Nigerian American decent being that I am a Ghanaian American. Cole is a Nigerian American. He was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria and came to the United States in 1992 at the age of seventeen. Cole is also well educated and is a graduate student at Columbia University. I found it insightful how in the novel Cole met several various types of people, including other immigrants. He met and shared stories with a Haitian shoe shiner, at work in Penn Station; a Liberian, imprisoned for over two years in a dentition center in Queens; and a Moroccan student working at an Internet café. I enjoyed the fact that the narrator was well stocked minded. He touched on the topics of art, music, and interesting books. He had a very eclectic set of interest.