The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore by Joan Lowery Nixon

I have just started reading the book The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore by Joan Lowery Nixon. This book is very good to me so far, it's also very intense as it talks about Christina's personal life so far. Even though I'm not that far into the book yet, I have many inferences about Christina. This book is about how this girl called Christina gets kidnapped, Christina's family  is extremely rich and her grandmother is paying for her whole college tuition. But the only problem she has is that she thinks that she doesn't have enough freedom, her grandmother controls all the money and won't let her use any of the money even when she wants to go on a tour trip to France. As she struggles, there are a lot of things that impact her life and pretty much change it.

The first thing I think that impacted her life is all the stress she's having from her parents and her grandmother. Normally, people her age lives a normal life without anyone controlling her or forcing her to do things she doesn't like. Her parents are rich but they never seem to support Christina and always making her do things their way. This is a very bad thing that the parents are doing since Christina now feels like she's trapped and that she doesn't have any freedom.

The grandmother is also something that impacted her, since Christina wants to go on a tour in France, she asks her parents for money. After she finds out that they aren't supportive on what she wants to do, instead her dad has other plans for her like tour guides of different colleges. She goes to her grandmother for help and hope for the best. The grandmother actually sided with Christina's parents and said no. Christina can't even use her trust fund for the tour guide. The grandmother even says that she limits her money since she is the one controlling it. This really limits Christina's freedom and really forces her to be mad and depressed.

The biggest impact so far in this book is her kidnapping. She gets kidnapped one night while parking her car, she drops the keys by accident and searches for them. The kidnapper quickly puts his hand over her mouth and inject her with some kind of liquid that makes her fall asleep. Being kidnapped is extremely scary, you can't contact anyone and you probably won't even know where you are. If I were Christina, I would also be scared to death because who knows what the kidnapper will do to you. Christina's kidnapper, who appears to be Zack, the hamburger waiter at a place Christina and her friend goes all the time, wants to use her for a chance to get money from her grandmother. She is stuffed in a basement, this is pretty intense because who wants to be stuck in a basement with nothing to do. No video games, nothing to play, read, or write. It's also cold and chilly in that basement which makes me think of how hard Christina must be trying in order to survive. It's also kind of lonely in that basement with no one to talk to, if I were Christina, I would really miss be parents and family and would wonder what would happen to me. Since I have just begun to read this book, I can't think of anything else that impacts her life.

In conclusion, this book is extremely intense and good so far that I can't wait to read the next couple of chapters of it. I can't wait to see what will happen next after she gets back home and gets blamed for planning her own kidnapping. (Since the author told us that she gets back home, and her family blames her of planning her own kidnapping.) There are a lot of things that impacted her life so far and there will sure be more later on in the book. People in life everyday are also experiencing problems and conflicts that impact and shape their life. I also have things that have impacted my life before like moving to a different house, or changing schools, and injuries. Overall, Christina's life is way more complex than mine since she's going through all these conflicts.