Thursday, December 30, 2010
Week two: Response to question #1
This chapter presents that justice is injustice. As jesse goes back and forth between the past and present examples of injustice is being portrayed with those who are in jail. "As einstein had predicted, their souls and their futures would be completely unchanged, while the world around them had evolved and gone." The=e things that are described in jail represents how injustice the system is. Throughout this chapter justice is being portrayed as not applicable. Jesse being a defense attorney can also represent injustice because he may have to defend one who is wrong.I think the court system, those being in jail, and jesse being an defense attorney all coicides with justice and how it is not distributed.
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1] what does the statement stated by einstein mean to you? "As Einstein had predicted, their souls and their futures would be completely unchanged, while the world around them had evolved and gone on."
ReplyDelete2]Who do you think alfredo vea is referring to as the "male recumbent" ?
Week two QUOTE ANALYSIS: These recumbent males, unable to change to change their own botched lives, had somehow managed to partially transform their bunk beds and cots. Simple metal and spring frames with cloth coverings had evolved into complex. finely tuned machines capable of travel through time and space."pg53
ReplyDelete-This quote is stated by the narrator and is being said to describe the recumbent male of the chapter.The recumbent male are those who are in jail. This quote also describes what a recumbent male does and how their actions is relevant to time and space of the male's who are in jail because most are limited to going back to the past and is rare that a person in prison is able to move forward. This quote is significant because it helped me understand the beginning of the chapter and the title of the chapter and what vea was trying to convey in this chapter.
I think the ideas about justice that are presented in this chapter is justice is never truly served because like Jesse said life is like a war. " There are seventy - five wars going on in this world right now.."(vea.p63)If there are wars going on 24/7 when is there even time to think about justice.I think the point Jesse made about war ties greatly in to justice because how can justice be severed is the world is a war. Also most of this chapter is set in jail,which shows jail is not showing justice for anyone because jail doesn't rehabilitate people and change so the can be better. its just a place where they are looked away ,and that defiantly does show any type of justice.
ReplyDeleteQ2. Well I think that Alfredo Vea is referring to Bernard Skelly as a "male recumbent" , because he is male who is Lying down, especially in a position of comfort or rest; reclining while he is in jail.
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