Elizabeth Smart

On June 5, 2002, Elizabeth Smart said, “Goodnight” to her family and rested her head on her pillow. Just a few hours later, Smart would wake up with a cold knife on her throat and a stranger standing above her. As she was dragged out of bed and down the hallway of her two- story home, she internally screamed and pleaded for someone to save her. Just when she thought she would actually scream, her captor, Brian David Mitchell, bent over and whispered in her ear. “If you make a sound, if you do anything that causes any attention or causes someone to come, I not only will kill you, but I will kill anyone who tries to stop me” (Duke). Throughout the nine months of Smart’s kidnapping, she taught herself, her community, and the nation that although sometimes…

sometimes evil world.No matter what happens though we must fight to do what we believe to be right. Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped and held for nine months, and in some ways she was reborn. Elizabeth Smart was only 14 years old when she was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night on June 4, 2002. She endured all kinds of abuse and degrading acts at the hands of her kidnappers, Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee. Mitchell is a manipulator and will do what he sees fit to…

someone else’s mouth, right? Well, how would you feel if your teacher told you that you were that piece of gum if you decided to engage in any sexual activity before marriage? Elizabeth Smart, a kidnapping victim who was sexually abused for years, was told this as a young girl by one of her teachers. Smart was taken in Salt Lake City, Utah when she was 14 years old and held captive for nine months. The strange part of her story was that she was taken outside of the house she was held captive in…

In the book, My Story, fourteen girl old girl, Elizabeth Smart, tells the story of her nine month kidnapping. Through those nine months she experienced an unreal amount of torture and she shares the intimate details of those excruciating events. Elizabeth Smart was known as kind, respectful, and shy. She started playing the harp when she was young and loved it so she played local weddings, funerals, and recitals. She also ran cross country at her high school, Bryant Intermediate School.…

On the morning of June 5, 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah. Elizabeth’s parents, Ed and Lois, worked with local and national media the next morning to increase visibility of the case; public interest in the kidnapping of the teenager grew over night and the country was on the look out. Nine months after the abduction Elizabeth’s younger sister, who had witnessed the kidnapping, unbeknownst to the kidnapper, remembered that the abductor’s…

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