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Lead Section

A Stolen Life: A Memoir is a true crime memoir by American kidnapping victim Jaycee Lee Dugard. The memoir tells the story of the 18 years she spent in captivity in an unincorporated area in Contra Costa County, California. The memoir dissects what she did to survive, and cope mentally with her extreme abuse. The memoir when reviewed in 2011, garned consistent reviews such as “powerful”, and “chilling” from a number of different media outlets.The book reached number 1 on Amazon's sales rankings a day before release and topped The New York Times Best Seller list hardcover nonfiction for six weeks after release.

Background Section

In 1991, Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped by means of a stun gun near South Lake Tahoe, California at the age of 11, while she was walking from home to the school bus stop. While in captivity she endured constant sexual abuse from Richard Garrido, one of her two captors. Despite sustained investigation, Dugard was not found until eighteen years after the abduction. A Stolen Life is the story of Dugard's 18-year ordeal and was written as part of her therapy with Rebecca Bailey, who specializes in post-trauma family reunification.

Pre-abduction Subsection

Before her abduction, Dugard states that she dealt with an abusive Stepfather, and her biological father was absent.

Post-abduction Subsection

Dugard, and Her family were awarded a twenty million dollar settlement for the failure of the parole officers assigned to Richard Garrido, a convicted felon, to recognize the situation Dugard was involved in specifically her enslavement. One of her captors, Richard Garrido, impregnated her twice over the course of her captivity resulting in two daughters.

Dugard has stated that her reasons for writing this memoir are three fold: to give people a defined an indepth look at what she had to deal with while being in captivity, and to reach other survivors, and to find some catharsis from this traumatic experience.

Reception Section

The publisher Simon & Schuster initially printed 200,000 copies, and later printed another 15,000 to meet demand. A day before its official release the book reached to the top of Amazon's sales rankings.

“As The L.A Times puts it Dugard’s memoir “A Stolen Life” chronicles her growth from victim to survivor, from terror to strength. While it is also an indictment of the parole system and a meditation on loneliness”.

Genre Section

A Stolen Life is a memoir of Dugard’s life while being held captive, and about traumatic, chilling experiences she had to deal with. The book uses excerpts from her diary from then, her own commentary on the experience, and other things such as pictures.

Publication Section

“A Stolen Life” was published on July 12, 2011 by Simon and Schuster. Dugard followed up A Stolen Life with another book titled Freedom: My Book of Firsts that deals with her life after captivity including her family in 2011.

Analysis Section

In looking at her life in captivity in the book, Robert Salonga contends it is apparent that Dugard developed a degree of Stockholm Syndrome, or empathy for her captor in order to cope with the harsh realities of her situation. Before being held captive, Dugard explained that her Stepfather was abusive, and her biological father was absent. She mentioned that Phillip Garrido, her rapist, was the only person she had contact with for long periods of time. She also stated that he provided for her while in captivity, when he wasn’t conducting “runs” or sessions of sex with her.

In a New York Times Article, Dugard is described as courageous, and dignified when recounting such a traumatic experience.

Annotated Bibliography
I am posting a list of bibliography of sources that I am using to make edits to the "A Stolen Life" article

ABC News, ABC News Network, abcnews.go.com/US/jaycee-dugard-daughters-today-father/story?id=40279504.

This source highlights Dugard’s life post kidnapping specifically the plight of her children. It also shows the effects of her traumatic experience, and how it has affected her view on life. This article is incredibly useful for bridging the gap between her experience, and her life after the experience. I could file this article as a contribution for post-kidnapping.

“Jaycee Lee Dugard Kidnap | US News.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, www.theguardian.com/us-news/jaycee-lee-dugard-kidnap.

This source consists of Dugard describing her own kidnapping. She also describes what being in captivity was like, and what she dealt with. This experience helps gap the knowledge of her kidnapping, and helps bring emotion to her memoir in every category. I think this article is very useful because of the nature of memoirs, there needs to be things said from Dugard’s own perspective.

Mckinley, Jesse. “Captive's Own Account of 18 Years as a Hostage.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 4 June 2011, www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/us/04jaycee.html.

This article discusses Dugard testifying in the trials of her kidnappers. She speaks of what her kidnapping was like, and what she was subjected to under The Garridos. This article is similar to the Guardian Article, but it details the justice her kidnappers faced. This is a very important point in her memoir.

“Jaycee Lee Dugard Book: Chilling Memoirs of Years in Captivity.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2011, www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2011-jul-13-la-me-0713-jaycee-dugard-book-20110713-story.html.

This article gives more details about Dugard’s experience while being helpd captive, and more details about what life had been like. She speaks about the state government’s failure to intervene in the situation for 18 years, and how this situation is not as simple as it seems. This article contains geographical relevance, and also mentions “A Stolen Life” more than any article so far.

Maslin, Janet. “A Captivity No Novelist Could Invent.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 17 July 2011, www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/books/jaycee-dugards-stolen-life-18-years-of-abuse-review.html.

This article deals with Dugard’s life after her kidnapping, and is much more emotional oriented then other articles. This is what needs to be seen in an analysis of a memoir, and an article like this can add a lot to developing the person the memoir depicts. I think wiki article can be developed in a similar manner as the memoir with the help of this article

Salonga, Robert. “A Decade after Emerging from Captivity in the Bay Area, Jaycee Dugard Reflects on the Life She Lost, and the One She's Gained.” The Mercury News, The Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2019, www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/26/a-decade-after-emerging-from-captivity-in-the-bay-area-jaycee-dugard-reflects-on-the-life-she-lost-and-the-one-shes-gained/.

This article comes from the perspective of someone who is not Jaycee Dugard, but the officer who liberated her from her captors. An article with an outside perspective can help me make the wiki article more multi dimensional, and bring about different ways of thinking about Dugard’s terrible plight. This article also depicts how this story has led Dugard to be engaged with other media figures, and shows the coverage this story received.

Dvorak, Petula. “Jaycee Dugard's Memoir, 'Stolen Life'.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 22 July 2011, www.washingtonpost.com/local/jaycee-dugards-memoir-stolen-life/2011/07/19/gIQAGbVzTI_story.html.

This article offers commentary on the memoir itself. This is important because these details can be added anywhere to strengthen any other sections, but also it should have its own section. This allows me to bridge the reception section of the article, and can lead me to other articles that offer similar insights.

"The Jaycee Dugard Story; Her Memoir, 'A Stolen Life,' may Give Readers Insight -- but what Will it do for Her?" Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2011. ProQuest, https://search.proquest.com/docview/865676204?accountid=11091. https://search-proquest-com.proxy.library.georgetown.edu/docview/865676204/6250BE5A446541D8PQ/9?accountid=11091

This article offers insight on the effects of her traumatic experience on Jaycee, and what the experience of Jaycee writing her memoir has done for her in parsing the unbelievable confusion brought on by this situation.

Salonga, Robert. "Kidnapping, Sexual Slavery, Freedom through the Eyes of Jaycee Dugard: [1]." Oakland Tribune, Jun 02, 2011. ProQuest, https://search.proquest.com/docview/869746161?accountid=11091.

This article gives us insight on the state perspective of what Jaycee’s situation met to people in California, and what her experience in court was like. This article gives us good insight into the mindset of Jaycee, as she faced her kidnappers.

Evaluation 2/18/20 Montesinos
Evaluating content


 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Yes, nothing distracted me from understanding more about the life of Montesinos
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? Identify content gaps.
 * His death is not highlighted to the extent I expected as he essentially became a martyr. There seems to be a need for a more definitive time frame
 * What else could be improved?
 * Aside from a better timeframe, everything seems to provide a good foundation for the article
 * Lot of Run on sentences
 * more up to date sources
 * Review the lead section. Does it follow Wikipedia’s guidelines to provide basic information and summarizes the entire article?
 * Yes it gives a good introduction of Montesinos

Evaluating tone


 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Yes it is neutral, no there are none
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * there is a good balance between Spanish perspectives, and perspectives of the native peoples

Evaluating sources


 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * The links work, they are from books so no URLS
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted? For example, does the writer use signal phrases to clearly identify the source of the information?
 * Every link I found referenced page numbers in a number of given books. The sources don't stick out to me as being cultivated in bias. They are in english, so no language gap

Checking the talk page


 * Now take a look at how others are talking about this article on the talk page.
 * Very little discussion of this article
 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * Literally none
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
 * If anything this article reflects how one should conduct themselves when communicating with other editors.

Evaluation for Drama 2/24
Drama does have a lead in which provides the importance surface details about the book such as the author, genre, and details about the plot. It has a section dedicated to background information about the author's exigence, and where her inspirations for characters in the book came from. The background section also addresses the style of the graphic novel, and what genre banner the rhetor considers it as. The summary sections follows the background is fairly concise, but I could see how someone who hadn't read it would be confused by certain parts of the summary. I think the summary could be improved by having more defined time frame, and better situational definition about details of Callie's life. The genre section follows up on what the author stated in the background section, and adds more about the stylistic aspects of the book. The analysis section, reception section, and the awards sections follow. The article doesn't have a publication section which is something that could be added. I think that the summary could be edited, so that the time frame would be more definitive about the plot.