ESCAPE

OVERVIEW

• Carolyn Jessie was born on January 1st,1968.
• She lived in Hildale,Utah growing up.
• Her 2nd mother was named Rosie.
• She graduated high school at 17.
• She planned to attend college to become a pedatrian.

OVERVIEW

• When she turned 18, she was put into a arranged marriage with Merrill Jessop.
• She was his 3rd wife.
• She had 8 children with him.
• He actually wanted to marry her 16 year old sister but mixed up their names.
• She would have sex with him in exchange for better emotional treatment.

OVERVIEW

• She left her husband when he went on a business trip on April 21st, 2003.
• She suffered from PTSD and depression.
• She eventually met another man and they got married.
• Her eldest daughter Betty returned to the FLDS when she turned 18.
• She was the 1st FLDS women to gain full custody of her children.

UNDERSTANDING THE RELIGON

• The head prophet is Warren Jeffs.
• 6,000-10,000 estimated members.
• The color red is prohibited.
• Women are not allowed to cut their hair, they are expected to wash their husbands feet with it in heaven.
• They are taught that Warren Jeff's is the president and Neil Armstrong never landed on the moon.

UNDERSTANDING THE RELIGON.

• If you have 3 or more wives you are guaranteed a spot in the highest level of heaven.
• Their motto is "keep sweet" or fill yourself with the Holy Ghost.
• The darker your skin the more sin you have inside of you.
• You have to have sex with 15 chosen men if you want to become pregnant.
• If the women are not in "sync" with their husbands they go to hell.

EXIGENCE

• The way she was treated and the way that other women are treated in the FLDS community.
• She grew up watching women be completely miserable and had to put up with families being destroyed.

AUDIENCE

• Other people that left the FLDS
• The whole world
• Women
• For her ex-husband

PURPOSE

• To show FLDS that they can't push her down without a fight
• To inform others about what really goes on in the FLDS community.
• I think the author was extremely succesful.
• I had a huge culture shock that people could live like that.

CLAIM

ORGINIZATION

• The book starts off with her leaving the community and her almost getting caught.
• The rest of the book was like a flashback until it reached present time.
• I really like how it grabbed your attention and then just kept drawing you in.

APPEALS

• Pathos and ethos was really effective but logos was not.
• You could really see and feel Jessop's raw emotions.
• When she was breaking down you just wanted to cry with her.
• Logos was not really effective because there just wasn't a lot of facts just her view of things.

LaNGUAGE

• The sentence structure was simple with a few complex sentences here and there.
• It was also very informal.
• "We had to fast and pray for three days. We want you to die so we can go back to father"