Mediterranean School of Business
"Catch me if you can"
Informative essay
Anwar Khalifa
Group: B
Catch me if you can is a book written by Frank Abagnale about his life as an imposter, from the title it is clear that he is a thief escaping, however, his story is quite an interesting one to know about. It is an inspirational story showing how a person is capable of changing.
Frank was born on April 27th, 1948, in Bronxville, New York. According to him, he had a nice stable childhood with both of his parents, however, for him his live turned upside down when his mother decided that she will leave his father because of his traveling most of the time for work, especially because he was very close with his father, thus after his mother was reaching independency from his father, who was still in love with her, he chose to move with his father. During the divorce period, Abagnale Jr became with the professional transactions, of which Frank started after getting tired of shoplifting. He started theft at an …show more content…
Eventually, Frank decided that he will stop all of this fraud, at least for a little time, so he settled in France after accumulating more than two million dollars from bounced checks through the years. However, things did not go the way he planned when his ex-girlfriend identified him from a wanted poster and she turned him in. Frank was wanted in many countries including France and Sweden. He was jailed in France and he described the conditions there to be very bad and healthy, consequently, he got very ill. He was also held in Sweden and America and his father passed away while he was serving his time. Frank was granted parole after several years, he then started giving lectures about ways to prevent
"Catch me if you can"
Informative essay
Anwar Khalifa
Group: B
Catch me if you can is a book written by Frank Abagnale about his life as an imposter, from the title it is clear that he is a thief escaping, however, his story is quite an interesting one to know about. It is an inspirational story showing how a person is capable of changing.
Frank was born on April 27th, 1948, in Bronxville, New York. According to him, he had a nice stable childhood with both of his parents, however, for him his live turned upside down when his mother decided that she will leave his father because of his traveling most of the time for work, especially because he was very close with his father, thus after his mother was reaching independency from his father, who was still in love with her, he chose to move with his father. During the divorce period, Abagnale Jr became with the professional transactions, of which Frank started after getting tired of shoplifting. He started theft at an …show more content…
Eventually, Frank decided that he will stop all of this fraud, at least for a little time, so he settled in France after accumulating more than two million dollars from bounced checks through the years. However, things did not go the way he planned when his ex-girlfriend identified him from a wanted poster and she turned him in. Frank was wanted in many countries including France and Sweden. He was jailed in France and he described the conditions there to be very bad and healthy, consequently, he got very ill. He was also held in Sweden and America and his father passed away while he was serving his time. Frank was granted parole after several years, he then started giving lectures about ways to prevent