From the last time I wrote about Girl Stolen I have finished the book and in my opinion I have got to say I did enjoy the ending. So many big events happened since I wrote about them last week. The first big event that happened was when Cheyenne told Roy, all her fathers numbers and he decided to give her father a call so he left Cheyenne alone in the room. She was smart enough to figure out where a glass of water was because she used the glass to escape by braking it and cutting the ropes around her wrists. It was during the night when everyone was sleeping that Cheyenne actually got up and out of the house without getting caught. What she didn't know was that they had a dog. In the beginning of the story they did mention the dog named Duke but they just described him as being a bad dog who hates everyone except for Roy and Griffin. Once Cheyenne got out of the house Duke started barking and Cheyenne got scared because she thought that the boys were going to hear and wake up. As soon as she felt herself getting closer to the dog she knew she had to do something. Cheyenne soon began talking to Duke to try to calm him down and she did surprisingly. Once she felt him calm down Cheyenne knew in her heart that Duke wasn't a bad dog he was just scared because of how Roy treated him, she knew that he just wanted to be free. So, she did the right thing and tried to untie him from his chain. But instead of just letting him go she did a very smart thing instead. In the text it said that "Cheyenne pulled it until it became a makeshift leash. As if she were holding Phantom, she found herself taking her normal stance, her left leg ahead of her right, with the dogs head next to her left thigh." From reading this I knew that since Cheyenne is blind she was using Duke as a guide dog to help her go the right way. After this, she kept telling Duke to go forward and he listened very carefully to her. The bad thing about this is that Duke suddenly heard a noise and got scared so her ran off, leaving Cheyenne alone in the dark. You have to read Girl Stolen to find out if Cheyenne gets to a safe place or gets caught by Roy and his sons.
In my opinion I would have to say that I really did enjoy reading this book, not only because of the genre but because I could reflect a lot on it. In the book it explains how Cheyenne is blind and get kidnaped but just because she's blind it doesn't mean she's not smart enough to get free. In the book it explains that Cheyenne uses a lot of her other senses to be able to get free. In the text it states "Every time someone spoke, her head swiveled in that direction." I know that from this text it is clearly showing Cheyenne using her sense of hearing because each time she heard something she knew the way the noise was coming from. I found this so interesting because if I was ever in Cheyenne's position I wouldn't know exactly where to look when I heard a noise. I have to say the Cheyenne was actually very strong and brave throughout the story and especially with her being blind and very sick. I think that other people that might have been in the same place she was wouldn't be able to escape the way she did. What I mean by this is that she used as many as her senses as she could to get outside and for her to use the dog as a guide dog was smart. I don't think many people would have thought of that because even Griffin was sometimes afraid to get close to Duke. I think that in the future I will read more books like Girl Stolen.
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