'The Land of The Lost', essay analyse

The story moves around a single character who is a middle-aged divorced woman living alone with her German shepherd named Ollie and she works as a cashier. She has two grown boys who have just moved out, because of this she now lives alone and has become interested in a local murder case she has been reading on the paper and furthermore on the television. We, as readers, are told the girl has been murdered, and buried not for from the woman´s home. She starts getting obsessed with finding the girl, though at first it starts out as being just a strong feeling of motherly love towards a child, and sympathy for the grieving mother, which is the sole reason that makes the woman search for the girl. But soon it changes, the woman gets herself deeper and deeper involved with searching for the girl. She sacrifices a large amount of her time and money on this case, simply because she has nothing else to do. No obligations, no appointment, no friends to chat with and no family to take care of other than her two grown sons. Therefor she allows herself to immerse herself into the task to find the girl.