Should Jimmy Valentine Stay Free?

Dustin Turner is innocent. He did not murder Jennifer Evans; however he is still serving an eighty-two year sentence in prison. Ten years more than what Billy Brown got sentenced. Turner has been locked away for half of his life. He deserves to be released. Although he waited 8 nerve-wrecking days to go to the police, he’s served his time to the system and the society to be released. Billy Brown should be the one to be sitting on death row waiting to get the chair for what he has done to Jennifer, her family, Dustin, his family, and even to his own family. Everyone is suffering from his drunken rage actions.

Trying to make ends meet, he turns to selling drugs. By the time Jimmy finds love ones more and decides to settle down tragedy occurs. Trying to escaping from a drug bust at a friend’s house his attempts end up with a conviction for murder. Due to his illiteracy, Jimmy couldn’t read the false accusations he never committed.

Jimmy Valentine, a tricky criminal from the story, “A retrieved Reformation,” Has changed for people he did not even know! One day when he was retired from his criminal deeds he stumbled upon a young girl named Annabel. His old self was then buried deep into his mind. They soon got engaged and had an engagement party. At the party Annabel's little sister had been pushed into a safe and was locked in by accident. Jimmy had to bring back his criminal deeds and crack the safe open to save the girl's life.

n the novel “A Retrieved Reformation”, Jimmy Valentine’s ethics are debated. The most likely answer, however, is in the evidence. Jimmy Valentine was sent to jail for safe-cracking, and was sentenced to four years of prison. However, he only served less than ten months. The reason for this is because Jimmy was pardoned by the governor, due to criminal connections.

The suspense in this story is the death of the narrator’s daughter, Gracie. That is why she becomes the reason to remember how family ties are important. The central character of the story is the narrator. The conflict of the story is that the narrator’s brother, Sonny, is in jail for taking and selling heroin (Baldwin, 489). The narrator displays his brother Sonny, who is also antagonist of the

Jimmy Valentine should stay free, he deserves it because he is different, he is changed. He turned his life around after many years of crime. He is

Jimmy Valentine, the main character in “Retrieved Reformation” by Common Lit staff, makes a change for the best, but is still unable to leave his past completely behind. Jimmy Valentine is a bank robber. After being released from prison he is off and gone until “Jimmy Valentine looked into her eyes, forgot, who he was, and became a new man.” Shortly after, JImmy sent a letter to his dear friend, “... I want to make a present of my kit of tool. I know you will be glad to give them to us…” Once receiving the tools he carries them by his side 24/7. One day hanging out with his fiancee's family at the bank, one of the little girls get caught in the bank's new safe that can not be broken. Jimmy’s fiance looks at him with pleading eyes, asking for

Should Jimmy Valentine stay free? I think that Jimmy Valentine should have freedom. In the story he changed his life around as he fell in love and realized what he has done. He has became a better person as the story went on.

Jimmy feels very proud for being able to stand up against an unjust action. He then realizes that this was the first time something he learned in school actually applied to his daily life. He then starts to laugh and so do Jesus and Ahmed. With this, they head off to school. With this in mind, Jimmy makes up his mind about talking to his parents about what he overheard last night. He figures out that the first step to stopping unjust events was to tackle them at their root; the parents who pass on their views to their

Jimmy was raised in a broken and unstable household where he developed feelings of guilt, repression and anxiety. These feelings he felt were deeply engraved into his memory and he was unable to escape them as they haunted him in his adulthood. It is made evident that his parents’ marriage is weak and falling apart because of their constant arguing. When Jimmy was a child, he decided to light a strand of his hair on fire. His father had blamed this incident on his mother because “the cigarette lighter wouldn’t have been there if his mother didn’t smoke” (Atwood 16). Jimmy’s mother fought back by saying “all children are arsonists at heart,

Once someone has served their time in prison, should they be allowed to continue their lives like nothing has happened? Over the month of May this issue has been brought up twice to Montreal residence. The first was when Michael Giroux, a convicted rapist, moved into an apartment in Milton-Parc which is adjacent to McGill University. Giroux stalked and assault women between the ages of 23 and 42 in the 90s and was released from prison in the Fall of 2016. The topic came up again this week when Karla Homolka, a 47 year old who was convicted of rape and murder in 1993, has been volunteering at the private Christian elementary school that her children attend here in Montreal. Homolka and her ex husband tortured, raped and killed three young women, one of which was her 15 year old

After a terrible Christmas and getting nothing he wanted Greg is back to the same old routine. One day Greg plays a game with Rowley where he must ride a bike while Greg tries to knock him off. On one of Greg's tries, the ball gets under the front wheel, which causes Rowley to fall off and break his arm. At school Rowley gets all the girls attention and this makes Greg wish he broke his arm. After Rowley’s arm heals he and Greg enroll in a Child Safety Program where they walk kids home from school.

Jimmy continued his walk, while walking he bumped into his adult friend Clark who was a police officer. Clark saw how Jimmy looked upset so he offered Jimmy to go to lunch with him. “Sp what happened?” Clark asked. “Nothing, just me putting my nose where it didn’t belong”. “Well I believe you did the right thing because, you're a good kid Jimmy.” “It doesn’t matter, I was good when my parents got taken from me, and I was good with my foster family but yet, nothing turns out good for me.”. Jimmy left the diner and started walking again. As he was walking he saw a car be lifted into the air by some man, all of sudden the car was thrown at him. Quickly he ran. The man screamed, “ Where are you going boy, the wizard can’t protect you here!”. Jimmy ran down into the subway. He kept running until he ran into the gate. He was trapped and even worse he could hear the man coming

The narrator is tasked with driving Mr. Norton, a trustee of his college around campus and the town. While driving by a number of run down buildings from the slavery era Mr. Norton asks him to stop the car. There Mr. Norton meets a disgraced sharecropper, Jim Trueblood, who impregnated his teen daughter. Mr. Norton falls ill after listening to Trueblood’s burdensome story and asks the narrator to get him a drink. They go to the Golden Day, a bar and a whore house, where a group of mental patients had been taken for the day. The situation quickly descends into chaos, resulting in injury to Mr. Norton. After

After receiving the news about the murder, Jimmy explodes with emotions. “I remember, I was more afraid of my little daughter than I ever was of being in prison” (Dennis 34). This quote shows the fatherly love Jimmy had for Katie. It compared the strength Jimmy had through the rough times in jail and how afraid he was of losing Katie. Ultimately, Jimmy follows the wrong path. Jimmy not only fails to find his daughter’s murderer, but he also kills Dave along too. By looking though a psychoanalytic lens, one can interpret Jimmy’s fatherly instincts which are to try to unearth his daughter’s murderer no matter the cost.