18 enlightening-peaceful way in viewing the natural world around us. One of the
disciplines is tentram which is selected to conduct the study. It supports having a normal life peacefully and happily.
2.1.3 Criticism
One of the novels written by Nancy Baker Jacobs, See Mommy Run, has been analyzed by readers who are interested in this touchy story. Their criticisms
provide useful insight for this study. The aim of presenting these criticisms is to obtain further understanding of Nancy Baker Jacobs’s See Mommy Run.
Both Nancys fiction and nonfiction books often include an observation of social issues, from racial and religious bigotry to financial greed, from womens
rights to child abuse, and from the celebrity cult to adoption. Yet her books are never preachy--all tell compelling, well-plotted and
suspenseful stories, using topics of current interest as a backdrop. http:www.nancybakerjacobs.comindex.htm, accessed on October 25,
2007
The weekly publishers say that in telling the story of the cross-country flight of Allison Warren and her four years old daughter, Stephanie, Nancy Baker
Jacobs, the author of See Mommy Run, exploits an up-to-the-minute topic: secret shelters for mothers who have kidnapped their children to protect them from
sexually abusive fathers. Although the author has obviously researched her subject, the characters
are wooden and the plot one-dimensional. Any suspense that might have been engendered by Allisons run is delayed by the heavy-handed parallel
tale of Louise Peterson, the female private investigator who is hired to search for Allison and her daughter, in contrast instead end up sympathize
with them. Stereotypes abound, from Allisons older sister, Ruth Persky, who refuses to help because she has always been jealous of her more
19 attractive sibling to the foul-mouthed fellow resident of a safe house who
disciplines her sons with violence. Not only is Stephanie has any identifying characteristics, for example, apart from a slight lisp which
makes her pronounce television as telebishun, but she seems practically unharmed despite having suffered sexual abuse.
http:search.barnesandnoble.combooksearchisbnInquiry.asp?z=yEAN =9780595093496tabname=custreviewitm=2, accessed on May 6,
2008
Another customer wrote that See Mommy Run is more than a suspense novel. She told that it documents the hindrance of mothers from all walks of life,
such as Allison, are forced to become “criminal” to protect their child. As always, Ms. Jacobs makes her characters and their predicaments so real that the readers
will feel as if they are there with Allison and Stephanie as they run across country http:www.amazon.comexecobidosASIN0595093493stopyourekilling,
accessed on August 18, 2008. Cradle and All commented that the readers will literally hate to put down
until the very last page. They said that Ms. Jacobs makes her characters and predicaments so real that the readers will feel as if they are with Karin as she
seeks to rescue her baby. Be sure to read Ms. Jacobs other fine novels, which include See Mommy Run and the three novels in the Devon MacDonald series.
http:www.amazon.comgpcdpmember- reviewsA39J24L3APWPSFref=cm_cr_dp_auth_rev?ie=UTF8sort5Fby=Mos
tRecentReview, accessed on August 18, 2008 The above comments describe people’s point of view toward Nancy Baker
Jacob’s See Mommy Run. Their comments are valued as clues to understand the novel better.
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2.1.4 Context of the Novel
