Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 102 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing, reading, and thinking on a weekly basis in an informal setting.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Sad Math
Sad Math actually made me a little bit sad. The speaker is cellmates with a man named Larry who has developmental delays and Larry thinks his family will send him money but the speaker knows that he has no family. I thought to myself how could a guy like Larry get into prison. He has developmental delays and the education of a fifth-grader. Wasn't this taken into account before he was sent to prison? Maybe that's the reason why his family doesn't associate with him. I thought that Larry was ex-communicated because maybe his family was ashamed of his developmental delays. More than likely though, they don't associate with him because of his jail time.
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I think these are interesting questions, William. I think they're related to what we use prison for. Is it to rehabilitate? Is it to punish? Is it simply to cordon off undesirables from the rest of us? Or is it for some other unstated reason? I think we don't ask these questions enough. (Btw, the author is serving a life-w/out-parole sentence in a CA max security prison.)
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