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amongst the characters.​The lack of sophisticated words and using strictly plot allows the story to

Piper Kerman, a freelance producer living in New York City with her boyfriend, was incarcerated in 2004 for money laundering and drug trafficking. She tells this story in her memoir, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison. Kerman tells her audience about her escapades in her twenties, and her normal life afterwards. But one day she is greeted with two police officers at her door, and things go downhill from there. Kerman is later arrested after a very lengthy court case and taken to federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Kerman makes light of her year spent in prison, writing about the different people she met and the experiences she had. Overall, Kerman’s memoir is an easy and fun read

The undefined characters of the story only seem to help accelerate the action of the story.

In her defense, going in the prison has its own ethical concerns, and her status as female researcher does not fit into the prison environment –where she can experience emotional and perhaps physical danger. Ultimately, she implemented the sociological approach by disclosing narratives to get as close to first-hand experience as possible, while maintain research

Many inmates found her to be a helpful resource especially when it came to academia. At first jail/prison was hard for George to get accustomed to , as it would be for all first time offenders. What was especially hard for George was the transition to jail/prison being from a middle class family. Her once profound freedom was gone and now she had to abide by the rules of the criminal justice system. Prison protocol such as shakedowns are important to make sure that inmates are not in possession of contraband but also used to make sure an inmate does not have too many of

With many scenes taken away because some characters are never mentioned took away a lot of the overall meaning of the story. I didn’t feel to relate to the movie as much as I did with the novel. Leaving an apt amount of scenes out, took away some of the anticipation I was building up to. Which made me a bit disappointed.

She immediately told Larry of the situation and the rest of her family, along with getting the best lawyer they could find. The lawyer fought as hard as he could and with Pipers cooperation the sentence was reduced to fifteen months at a facility in Danbury, Connecticut. Piper was brought to Danbury by Larry on February 4th 2004, more than a decade after the crime was committed. Although it was very hard for larry to leave Piper, Piper had been feeling worse for Larry and her family. Piper felt as though she made life worse for Larry to live his life alone and to have to explain to his boss about leaving early on thursdays of friday, to go see his fiance in prison. Her family always have been in a long line of doctors, lawyers, and teachers, what would people think about them. Piper in no way felt sorry for herself, realising she had put herself in this position. Piper had agreed to keep to herself and not fall into a mess with becoming friends with the other prisoners.Much to her surprise piper became friend with man of the other prisoners. She first meet Annette,her new bunkie, a dark colored Italian woman in her fifties. Annette took care

It is a drama-comedy series, based on Piper Kerman’s book about her experiences in prison, which orbits around Piper Chapman, a bisexual woman sentenced to 15 months in a women’s federal prison after the classy white upper-middle class protagonist was found guilty of trafficking money for her drug dealer

At first, when the audience meets Jessica, we can clearly see how uncomfortable and new she is to the detainment camp where different interrogation tactics are being used. This is seen when Dan asks Jessica to “put some water in the pitcher”, she clearly hesitates until Dan tells her again to hurry up. When Dan starts to do the water torture on the detainee, Jessica can’t stand but to look at the prisoner in disgust with her eyes closed. Jessica also shows secondary activity which is “any physical doing that an actor’s character engages in while acting in a scene” when she grabs onto her collar of her jacket (Flixacting 16 Secondary Activity). This shows her nervousness and discomfort to see the prisoner being tortured and punished for not telling the truth. The setting of the movie is also felt when Joseph Bradley asks Jessica how she likes Pakistan so far when she enters the office and she quickly replies, “It’s kinda fucked up”. This may have been Jessica’s first time in a situation comparable to this where she is not used to environment. As the film progresses, Jessica’s emotions is seen to be growing stronger. This is shown when she is interviewing another detainee named Faraj about the courier that she is after. Instead of letting her partner Dan interrogate the prisoner she

This is the story of Piper Kerman, and how her personal story from being in prison relates to that of other female offenders. Kerman came from a well educated family, who were mostly doctors, lawyers, or teachers.“Much to the skepticism of my father and grandfather,” she writes, Kerman had majored in theater (Kerman, p. 4), and graduated from Smith College in New England. After college, her classmates and friends were going off to their graduate school programs or new jobs. Kerman, however, decided to stay in Massachusetts. She felt unmotivated pursuing a career in theater, and did not have an interest in truly continuing on with her education. Furthermore, she also felt that she did not have a “meaningful career” (Kerman, p. 4). Kerman

    The renowned poet, Richard Lovelace, once wrote that "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage." Although many think of a prison as a physical building or a jailhouse, it can also be a state of mind. A great number of people are imprisoned mentally and emotionally. Charles Dickens expresses this message in his eminent novel, Great Expectations. This book is about a simple laboring boy who grew into a gentleman, and slowly realized that no matter what happened in his life it couldn't change who he was on the inside. On the road to this revelation, Pip meets many incarcerated people. Through these people, Dickens delivers the message that people can be

Orange is The New Black is a new and innovative series aired on Netflix that follows the life of Piper Chapman, played by Taylor Schilling. Chapman was sentenced to fifteen months and serves her prison term at Litchfield Correctional Facility. She acquired the charge of criminal conspiracy after transporting a suitcase full of drug money to her then drug-running girlfriend Alex Vause, who is portrayed by Laura Prepon. Piper’s decade-old crime finally caught up to her. She has to give up her upper-class routine and her fiancé Larry, portrayed by Jason Biggs, for an orange jumpsuit and the new prison environment she was hoping to elude. The series follows Chapman’s unique experiences inside the prison, explores her interactions with other inmates and shows her animosity towards her ex-girlfriend Alex who happens to be in the same prison.

The show is based on Piper Kerman’s memoir of the same name, and documents the experiences of a privileged Connecticut WASP named Piper Chapman who spends 15 months in a woman’s prison because she transported money for the head of a drug cartel, who happened to be her lesbian lover. Some of the show’s primary themes involve this clash of worlds, between the upper class white background of Piper, and the lower class, mainly nonwhite world of the prison.

Growing up in a household with parents of two different religious backgrounds has contributed to my identity and continues to act as an important factor in what defines me as a person. My mom was raised as a Lutheran Christian, and my dad was raised as Jewish. As a child, sharing this information with my peers around the holiday season made me quickly grow accustomed to hearing, “wow, so that means you get, like, double the presents!” Even though this may be true, coming from a religiously diverse family impacts my life in ways much more significant than just “double the presents.” It has provided me with different experiences to learn about both faiths and to gain a better understanding of how certain beliefs compare and contrast.Since a picture

And because of this, the dialogue is almost strictly for character interactions and occasionally a piece of wisdom or thought instead of exposition.