Alright so I just finished Life In Prison by Williams Stanley Tookie and I really like this book but it makes me feel bad for what happens to Tookie throughout his days in prison. The book was about his time in prison and what happened to him throughout those painful days behind those cold steel bars.
In the book, a man named Stanley "Tookie" Williams suffers life in prison with nothing to do except stay in a cell almost all the day. However he does find ways to keep himself from going insane and keep his body strength up.This book really taught me a lot about how I have to respect the rules and laws. Where ever I am. Otherwise I would end up getting strip searched, beaten up, and many many other foul and upsetting things.
As I said before, the book really makes you fell bad for Stanley, because he makes it seem that he did nothing wrong and he exaggerated about what they did to him in jail. With all the diseases, blather explosions, and severe injuries either caused by a jail guard or another cell mate. When Prisoners broke any rules within the cell they would have to serve time in the "hole". The hole is a dark cell underground that without any windows and many limitations to the cell store to buy supplies such as pencils, paper, etc.
The "hole" reminds me a lot of "time outs" that I used to have when I was a young boy.I used to have to stay in a corner or in the bathroom with only dinner to look forward to.
I don't think that Tookie actually deserved to be put in jail. I believe he seemed like a regular person that got in trouble once in his life for shoplifting or even maybe got accused for something he didn't do. Still I don't think he should have been executed. I thought you could only get executed if you committed a murder?
Tookie seemed like the only sane person in his prison. He drew, watched t.v, wrote books (including this one), read a lot, worked out at least 3 times a week (without getting into a fight once), wrote letters to his family, and so much more. He seemed like the only person that could actually keep their mind and not go crazy in their cell after being trapped there for over 4 years.
Overall the book really taught me a lot about how to survive jail (which I probably won't ever have to do, and that I need to follow rules correctly if I don't want to be executed on December 13, just like Tookie did.
Well ames, I must praise you, this blogpost is longer than anything I could ever dream of. keep up the good work.
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