Stolen Children Chapter Summary

So, now that I’ve listed some of the reasons that the book was banned/challenged, you can choose wither you think it should be banned/challenged or not. Me personally, I don’t think the book should be banned/challenged. I think the book itself out weights the reason it’s banned/challenged. Every book is going to have some reasons/things we don’t approve of, but that doesn’t mean we should base our feelings of the book off just them few things/reasons we don’t approve or agree of and everything else. That’s not fair to the author or others

The book “Where are the Children?” by Mary Higgins Clark starts out on a late October day. The main character Nancy is a young mother of two young children named Michael and Missy, her husband is Ray Eldridge. Because it is one of the last “good” days of Fall Nancy lets her children play outside while she changes laundry and does other household chores. That is when her children are taken without a trace of anything left behind except a red mitten. Immediately the police start searching for the children with Nancy as their number one suspect, there is also a lot of media coverage at Nancy’s house because of Nancy’s past tragedies that have made everything seem like she did in fact take the children. Because of all this stress Nancy becomes delirious and is unable to help the police, but she eventually works through it and gives

According to the American Library Association, the most common group of people, challenging a book being read in schools, was the parents of the students. Parents have a right to be in charge of what is put into the minds of their students, however just because one parent objects does not mean that the whole school should ban the book from the list. A solution for this book would be to enforce parental consent for books to be read in the classroom. If a parent does not want a book to be read in the classroom, then there should be other options for the student to read. The school and teacher should not trespass on a parent’s rights of raising their child. I believe that if a parent has a concern, they should go and discuss the problem with the teacher so that the teacher will be able to defend their reasoning for choosing the book to be read in the classroom.

It covers adult themes … that most students have not been exposed to and should not be provided by the school. It is a novel that has no life lesson to be learned”(Gomez). A middle school in Minnesota had this book in their library and parents did not approve of their children reading it, because it has explicit scenes in the book. The parents of this community had a meeting in December 2015, talking about if the book should be banned or not. When the meeting was over, the book Just One Day, was banned in Minnesota schools entirely, and parents were happy that the book was finally

I believe that you should be mature enough and warned about it before you read it. This should be required to read in high school. It teaches a very good lesson that everyone should know about. People need to understand how tough she had it, but that she overcame that and became a better person. This book should not be banned just because one person can not handle it. Just because someone does not have the maturity level to get the concept does not mean others should be able to read it. This is an amazing novel that shows you is you think you have it worse than others that you don't and there is people struggling more than you, but it doesn't mean you cannot change it. It might take time but it is

Step 1: I could not keep my eyes off of the words in the page. April Henry “Girl Stolen” is a mysterious, kidnapping, and inexplicable book, It explains how a sixteen year old girl escapes herself from a kidnapper that turned out becoming something else.

There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz tells the harrowing story of the Rivers family and their shocking experiences living in an underserved Chicago public housing project. The story focuses on Lafayette, a middle school aged boy discovering his identity, Pharoah, an elementary school aged boy with high ambition and goals, and their resilient mother LaJoe. Matza’s Techniques of Neutralization discuss how people can create rationalizations to justify delinquencies and crimes. Specifically applicable to There Are No Children Here is the theory of Denial of Responsibility which occurs when the perpetrator of an offense claims the situation was out of their control, they did not know the law, they were a victim of circumstance, or they were acted upon by outside forces rather than acting themselves. The second theory applicable to There Are No Children Here is Becker’s theory of Master Status. The theory of Master Status states that labels can take on a “master status” and can have an enormous influence and once you’ve been labeled, then define you. These theories aid in understanding how the pattern of violence and destruction is perpetuated in the projects of Chicago and the misfortune in the Rivers family.

In conclusion, books can affect children in both positive and negative ways and banning them can determine whether those affects go into play or not. Children can get confused on how they view things in life. This is why books should be given to kids are old enough to understand the content clearly. Although the opposing side would say that anyone should be able to read what they want, some content can damage the minds of those who don’t

Lessons learned from reading fiction can be very useful to use while approaching your issues. Fiction fills our beliefs and desires and teaches us things we have didn’t know. Evidence I can pull to help support my claim is that real world problems are no joke. These issues shouldn't be taken lightly. Fiction can teach you life lessons that you may or may not known. The school board needs to think this through. If the school board makes this decision on taking away fiction from school, today's society, in my opinion, will get mad. Today's society can tear people down easily. They can adapt to many different things at once if they wanted to. They can make things worse for people or make things good for people. Not only is this book about fictional issues, it’s also about real world problems and how fiction can relate to us, the readers. “Researchers found that people who read Literary fiction, led to better results in every subject. That same year, they found that people who read fiction had a higher brain activity than others who didn't.” Fiction, in my opinion, should be taken down, because of this

With this series, readers should be able to tell that the series is a fantasy. Parents should know that kids are capable of this ability. When it comes to behavior, it is shown several times in the book that he gets punished for his actions. Readers who disagree with this obviously haven’t actually read the books. Other readers say he “breaks a lower law to keep a higher one.” Another reason this book shouldn’t be banned is because with how the book is written, it could help kids cope with real life situations. For example, it could help kids with deal with close ones dying.

Some parent’s argue that the book should be banned but their argument can be overturned. Parents continue to argue about the violence that the book has, but they soon are going to have to notice that the world is filled with violence and if you’re going to ban a book because of the PG-13 violence in the book you should think about what revolves around you every day. The opposition also argues that the book causes nightmares but without evidence that the book was the thing that cause the child to have the nightmare or was it something that your child seen on TV before bed or thought about we will never no because there’s no evidence the book caused the nightmare. Parents in the situation seem as if they want the best for child and try to avoid and hide their child from the violence but as they grow older there are going to be more harsh violence around them in the real world and the book I think is preparing and maturing them for the

The thesis of the autobiographical memoir “A Stolen Life” by Jaycee Dugard, is that on January 10, 1991, eleven year old Jaycee Dugard lost her life for years to come. She was abducted from her school bus stop by Philip and Nancy Garrido with the aid of a stun-gun. Jaycee was incarcerated in a backyard compound and repeatedly raped and abused by Philip in a bid to satisfy his pedophile needs. While her eighteen years of captivity passed by, she had two daughters for Philip Garido . As she started to grow older, the “run”sessions begin to end, but the captivity of her life didn't. Finally, on August 26, 2009, Philip brought Jaycee and her daughters with him to the parole office in an attempt to explain away why he was spotted in public with

The loss of innocence is a significant milestone, but if taken by force it can be devastating. This is true of loss of innocence as reflected through the quote "I was eleven years old, still very much a kid. I was very scared and alone,” (Dugard 15) from A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard. Children see the world with no evil or danger and sheltered from the harsh realities of life. As reflected through the visual, the butterfly signifies innocence and beauty of life. that Jaycee Dugard’s has before her abduction; she is a very timid and innocent little girl, who has big dreams and a big heart. "I have made plans with my friend Shawnee from school to work at a dude ranch. I want to be a good rider, and I can't wait to see how good I become" (Dugard

You've seen all those reported kidnappings. You could be one of them or you already are. In the book, The Face on the Milk Carton, Caroline B. Cooney, explores the levels of how you would feel if one day you woke up, and you were kidnapped. For you, it’s probably wonder, but for Janie Johnson, it’s reality. For sixteen years, Janie lived the normal life until, she found her face on a milk carton. Caroline B. Cooney uses classic suspension techniques by slowing reliving clues to the girl's abduction. First it started as suspicion and ended as so much more, using good tone and theme, Caroline B. Cooney made this book a page-turner. This book gives you the feeling for

Books are challenged/banned all over the world because of their content. But they shouldn’t be. Books are tools and are very important to help students learn and grow. Books are used for leaning, entertainment, and many movies/shows are based on books. Books are banned/ challenged mostly by parents and students because of language, violence, and other things in the book that bother them. For example, the novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. The book is based on the characters Clay Jensen, and Hannah Baker, and their peers. In the book, Hannah is a girl that killed herself but left behind 13 tapes that told the “story of her life” and why “her life ended”. The book includes Hannah’s reasons for her to take her life and they’re very realistic and detailed reasons. The book is from Clay’s point of view, and about Clay’s feelings and reactions toward Hannah’s death and tapes. Thirteen Reasons Why shouldn’t be banned not only because it’s a very good book, but because this book can help many people. This novel can help teenagers understand that the things they say can hurt people and cause their personal problems to grow. It also shows them that their actions matter a lot.