My story- summary

In the book My Story by Elizabeth Smart she goes on telling us her experience of when she was kidnapped and used. She was only 14 at the time and she was put through things we can't even imagine or want to. She was taken by a guy named Brian David Mitchell and by his wife Wanda Brazee, they would abuse her, rape her and kept her chained. They would sometimes have breakfast, lunch and dinner together but in nudity. She would cry but not  loud enough for them to really notice because she wanted to be strong and not weak, she also didn't want to show weakness to them because if she did they would be able to hurt her more. She was taken a couple of places because they didn't have a house and they needed to move around a lot, they lived in a tent most of their life's. Elizabeth had convinced them to go back to Utah, she had said it was gods decision and he would want that for the better. Her plan was to get noticed in her hometown and when they agreed to go back they noticed her quickly even when she was disguised. She had got noticed by this police officer and was asked questions and that's when she said she was Elizabeth Smart. She returned home after nine months and barely told her story because she wasn't that ready to talk about what had happened to her. 

Conflicts- My Story

Some conflicts in the book I'm reading "My Story" by Elizabeth Smart is that she got kidnapped from her own house in the middle of the night and was abused and raped. This is the major conflict in the book because she was 14 when this all happened and it took 9 months for people to find her or spot her. She wasn't really fed or taken good care of because all the guy who took her (Brian David Mitchell) wanted to do was use her and take advantage since she couldn't do anything to help herself. His wife had helped him take her and use her. When she was found it was because she had been seen with them on the street. In the story she says, " I wiped my tears away, but inside I was crying even more. He was so...heartless. So cold and unfeeling." What this is showing is that she can't really do this anymore but she's not going to show him she's weak, she wants to be strong but it's impossible for her not only because she can't  really do this herself but because she is only 14 years old and people are doing things to her we don't even want to imagine.

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