Stolen

Evan Devould

Lemoyne-Owen College

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In this essay I will be summarizing the movie “Stolen”. Stolen is about a family of three boys who lived with their mom and dad. One of the boys name Luke was mentally retarded. Times were hard for this family, but got even worse when the mother committed suicide. After the mother committed suicide, financial hardships caused the family home to become foreclosed. After the family home was foreclosed they moved in with family members. Even though they moved with family, the youngest child who was mentally retarded was no welcomed into the household. Subsequently, father and son had to fend for themselves. One day, the father left Luke in the car alone. Shortly afterwards the father returned to the car, surprised to find that Luke was missing. Now the investigation begins for the search of little Luke.

At the beginning, there was a family of three boys. The youngest sibling was mentally retarded. His name was Luke. Luke was always referred to by family and peers as retard or slow kid. The boys lived with both their mother and father, until the mother committed suicide. After the death of the mother, the father who name was Matthew was granted full custody of the boys. Due to overwhelming financial hardships upon Matthew, the family house got foreclosed. With all this bad luck happening in such a short time span, the father turned to family for help. The family moved in with the mother sister named Sally Ann who was the children’s aunt. Unfortunately, she had a husband who was the children uncle through marriage named Carl. Carl refused to take on the responsibility of having to watch and care for a child with Luke’s mental disability. This created a divide in the family, and Matthew was abandoned by his family. With that being said, Matthew was forced to keep Luke with him at all times. Therefore, Luke was forced to go to work with his father everyday. While going to work with his father Luke became fond of his father coworker name Diploma. Diploma got his nickname because of his intellect. Diploma would usually help Matthew look after Luke at work. This began a very strong friendship between Diploma and Matthew. One day after work Diploma offered to introduce Matthew to one of his female acquaintances, and Matthew agreed. When Matthew met the friend he left little Luck in the car. Matthew wasn’t gone from his car ten minutes, but when he got back Luke was gone. Matthew began to panic. Diploma and Matthew searched the city for weeks, but never found Luke. Luke had always been easily persuaded due to his developmental delay. Decades past and there still wasn’t any sign of Luke. The family had accepted the fact that Luke was probably dead, but never lost hope for finding out what happen. Everything began to look very bleak, until one day construction workers working in an open field found a box. When they tried to lift the box it was very heavy, so the workers decided to open to see what’s inside. When they opened the box they found a body. When the police was called a Detective name Tom Adkins took on the case. Adkins son had been missing for over five years and had not been found yet. When Adkins arrived to the scene he noticed a car riding around. The man never got out of the car or asked any questions. Adkins took the license plate number on the car. When detective Adkins got back to his office he pulled up the number on the license plate and saw that the owner name was Mark Wakefield. When Adkins received the write up from the hospital on the case he noticed three things. First, he noticed that this was the body of a child that had a mental disability in the write up. Second, the body had been dead for over fifty years. Last, he got the biggest lead of all; the name of the dead person was Luke Wakefield. Instantly Adkins remembered the last name from the license plate and rushed to the house of Mark. When he arrived to the house Mark knew what he was there for. Detective Adkins asked Mark was he any relation to Luke Wakefield. Mark confirmed that was his youngest brother who had been missing for close to fifty years. When detective Adkins told Mark that they had found the body of his little brother he was not surprised at all. His response was well it’s about time, it took fifty years. Mark went on to say it is to late now, my father and younger brother are now dead. He also went on to say the only person alive is my father second wife. Mark could not offer Detective Adkins any valuable information so he went on to their father wife to question her. Detective Adkins got an important lead when he arrived at the Wakefield home to question the wife. The wife did not know too much about Luke but knew that Matthew and his friend Diploma looked for Luke for years. When asked who was Diploma, the wife went into her desk and pulled out a picture. The photograph showed Luke, Diploma, and Matthew. Detective Adkins noticed two things in the picture. One, Luke held a toy bear in his hand. It was the exact kind of bear Adkins son would always carry around with him. Coincidently, Adkins never knew where his son got the bear from. Second, he noticed the tattoo on Diploma arm. Then it hit him, Detective Adkins rushed out the house and went down to the county jail where this man had been arrested for a chain of murders all on little boys. The man name was Roggiani and was always referred to in jail as Diploma. Detective Adkins interrogated Diploma on Luke’s case as well as his son. Diploma was already on death row for the murders he already had been convicted of. Diploma finally confessed that he had been molesting and murdering young boys for close to fifty years before being caught. He also confessed that Luke was his first victim and that Detective Adkins son was the last boy he molested and killed, but just was never convicted of that particular crime. So, as it turned out the man who Matthew thought was his friend turned out to be a mass murderer and was the one who was responsible for the death of his son and multiple others. In conclusion, the family did not play a key role in caring for the mentally retarded child. The father was left in a vulnerable situation, and had to depend on strangers for kindness. Sadly, he did not find kindness instead he found evilness. Unfortunately, the family was not able to mend the relationship with Matthew and Luke. Ultimately Luke was kidnapped and murdered, and Matthew died trying to find his son.