Journal #3 Caged by Molly Venzke was the most tremendous and unexpected book that I have ever read. The unique and heart wrenching book tells about a fourteen year old Elle who only wants to visit her older sister Skye in Greece for art school. On Elle’s trip with her father Jack they take a little detour for “a pageant” that Elle wants to be in. What Elle doesn't know is that Jack does not sell horses for a living he sells young girls into prostitution who don’t have a choice in what they're about to be brought into which is a new form of slavery. The title of Caged is presented in many different aspects of the book.
One way that it is presented is in a different kind of way, it is when Mama Aggie remembers a dream of Skye drawing birds when she was very little. Elle said that she “wanted a bird of her own” (Venzke 83), but Aggie said that “they shouldn’t be kept in cages they should be free to soar …show more content…
The bird on the bracelet reflects something being free and unchained from its surroundings as Skye said “I want to be a bird and fly free” (Venzke). The heart in my own opinion reflects the passion of still living and going on through life even when you want to end it all which Skye starts to really think about doing. The cage is very obvious in what it reflects. It reflects something being confined and unfree like how everything in the world should be. In the book I feel like the bracelet itself represents Skye still believing or remembering her old life and how it used to be, and it in a way keeps her sane from only believing that badness exists. Skye throughout the book has no human rights at all given to her so she feels tacit like no one cares about her feelings or what her opinion is which is exactly how they treat girls in prostitution. That is just another one of the ways something in the book has reflected and represented the title
One way that it is presented is in a different kind of way, it is when Mama Aggie remembers a dream of Skye drawing birds when she was very little. Elle said that she “wanted a bird of her own” (Venzke 83), but Aggie said that “they shouldn’t be kept in cages they should be free to soar …show more content…
The bird on the bracelet reflects something being free and unchained from its surroundings as Skye said “I want to be a bird and fly free” (Venzke). The heart in my own opinion reflects the passion of still living and going on through life even when you want to end it all which Skye starts to really think about doing. The cage is very obvious in what it reflects. It reflects something being confined and unfree like how everything in the world should be. In the book I feel like the bracelet itself represents Skye still believing or remembering her old life and how it used to be, and it in a way keeps her sane from only believing that badness exists. Skye throughout the book has no human rights at all given to her so she feels tacit like no one cares about her feelings or what her opinion is which is exactly how they treat girls in prostitution. That is just another one of the ways something in the book has reflected and represented the title