Quotation Blog #7

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Freedom: My Book of Firsts by Jaycee Dugard
 
Being a girl who was kidnapped and victimized for eighteen years, shackled in a shed and raped everyday, Dugard was manipulated by her captor, Phillip Garrido. She was a niave eleven year old when she was taken. Children are very suseptiable to manipulation and believe what their elders tell them. He got in her head and convinced of her many horrible things.
 
"And I learned that there are really good strangers out there, and not all of them are bad like Philip told me" (Dugard 96).
 
Philip Garrido, convinced Dugard that nobody would like her or accept her if she was released into the world again, and warped her mind in many ways. He told her all other people were bad, and she believed it after hearing that for years and years. He truly made her believe he was "saving" her and that he was a good person. In reality, he is the worst of the worst. He abused her when she was a prepubescent child until she was in her late twenties when she was rescued. When she was rescued, Jaycee realized that there are many great people in the world, and what Philip told her was a lie. She was able to experience meeting new, kind souls who actually cared about her, unlike Philip who manipulated and horrifically abused her. It is amazing she is able to overcome what she once believed and open her mind.
 

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