The Taking By Kimberly Derting: An Analysis

The Taking, by Kimberly Derting, is about a girl, Kyra, who “lost” five years of her life after she disappears one night and wakes up five years later having no clue that any time passed or where she was for all that time. Upon her homecoming, she is greeted by a strange man who refused to let her in leaving Kyra outside wondering, “His house? Is that what he just said? But that wasn’t right. This was my house. My house. I tried to find something in all of it to cling to, something that would clear things up. I replayed the last few minutes, when I’d burst through the front door and tried to recall what I’d seen. It was the same house I remembered. The same, but different.” (Derting 18). It was evident Kyra’s mom had been forced to move on