The Hot House Book Review Essay

The Hot Zone creates a sense of both vivdness and danger. Author Richard Preston creates an environment that draws the reader into his narrative, making us aware of the “non-fiction” aspect of the book and the consequences its contents might have on our own lives.

A man by the name of Andy Dufresne was convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in Shawshank prison. He was an obvious black sheep among the prisoners, but as time went on he grew relationships with the crooks and realized the injustice in the justice system. In the creation of friendship between Red and Andy, hope was spread throughout the prison. While many themes are present in the film The Shawshank Redemption, hope, friendship, and injustice are also relevant in the world today.

The genre historical fiction focuses young readers to inform them about historical and significant cultural events in history, but to do in a way that is comfortable for readers in this age group. One Crazy Summer is a good example of young adult literature of highlighting cultural/historical events and entertaining to its audience. Two characteristics that make this a great novel for middle school readers is that 1- It encourages further inquiry( historical) and 2-The situations and characters are relatable (Y/A novel).

Conditions inside the prison were no better. For starters, many of the prisoners were those who had committed menial crimes. Worse so, many were war heroes, back from Vietnam who couldn’t find a job and thus had to go about other illegal means to stay alive, and thus were thrown in prison. Attica prison in particular was famous at the time among prisoners for having the most horrific treatment of their inmates. Guards did whatever they could both legally and illegally to keep their prisoners in perpetual fear and discomfort. The prisoners were not just treated like children, but as animals. The one thing prisoners treasure the most is their contact with the outside world. It keeps them sane and allows them to remain in some type of contact both with their families as well as with what is going on outside the prison walls. But, guards did whatever

His mother and step-father would constantly argue over various things with Clarence usually being the cause. When he was 14 years old he ran away from home. He became a hobo living on the streets and went to California, then eventually back to Missouri to live with his brother. Over the next 20 years he was sent to jail quite often during his life as a poor man for things such as robbery and was also sentenced to some years in prison.

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AUTHOR: Richard Preston PUBLISHER: Random House DATE OF PUBLICATION: 1994 Setting: The setting g takes place in two major places. Reston Maryland which is a suburb of Washington DC. and the second major area is in Kenya Africa.

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston The Hot Zone, a novel by Richard Preston explores a close encounter and near-outbreak of the Ebola virus in a military-controlled monkeyhouse. The story follows real-life examples of cases, as well as many fictional characters with new experiences with the virus. The book is considered a thriller, as many of the situations feel they could happen at any time, leaving some readers on the edge of their seats. The novel informed the nation on what likely could be a reality, with some chapters focusing solely on the various symptoms one goes through when contracted with Ebola and Marburg.

Through Seale’s life he was arrested several times. One of major charges was his involvement at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He was denied the ability to have his choice of which lawyer represented him. Later on after he spoke out for his constitutional rights, specifically dealing with choosing his lawyer, the judge ordered him bound and gagged. Seale was sentenced four years in prison after being convicted of 16 counts of contempt for being disrespectful to the court and the officers, but it was later stated that the judgment was incorrect and the punishment was reversed. Then two years later in 1970 Seale and a codefendant were tried for the murder of a Black Panther. The six-month-long trial ended with a hung jury.

The story of Robert Elliott Burns contributed to the reform of the Georgia state prison and correctional system by bringing public awareness and scrutiny to a couple of issues that were previously not paramount. One issue of contention was the type of treatment that Burns and the other prisoners were subjected to while incarcerated. The indications are that they were handled and managed in forceful and potentially brutal manner.

While working there, Chester Himes encountered an unfortunate elevator accident. As a result, he could attend Ohio State University immediately with the pension he received from work. Shortly after beginning school, Chester Himes engaged himself in illicit activities. Ohio State University did not take kindly to this behavior; consequently, Chester Himes was expelled. With no stable living environment, Chester Himes continued to misbehave. In September 1928, Chester Himes was arrested for burglary and fraud. He was sentenced to twenty-five years at Ohio State Penitentiary. It was in prison where Chester Himes began writing. Chester Himes gained the respect from his the prison guards through his writing. Writing gave him a distraction from the confined concrete corridor. Although Chester Himes had served only eight years in prison, he was released on parole into his mother’s care in 1936. Chester Himes, with a new perspective on life, strived to be a better

He relates several instances in his book that many prisoners locked up at Wethersfield were dangerous, both to the guards and other inmates. In addition, as he reflected back a few decades to those years he worked at the state prison he said that “The prison population, viewed as a whole, subjected only to punishment and religious ministrations, constituted a forbidding and well nigh hopeless mass of full grown men. Enough of them were dangerous and manifestly

Time for the prisoners. Who came, you may ask. Some of the mightiest criminals alive. Try Al Capone; the most powerful criminal in the world who was responsible for more than 1,000 deaths of politicians, policemen, and other gangsters. He killed anyone who got in his way, even if they were his own men. This guy may ring a bell, Robert Stroud aka The Birdman; stabbing guards and killing innocent people, he was sent to prison for life. In that time, he had already wrote two books about birds and lived in a cell filled with feathered creatures. How’d these men react, different. The first few years of prison were very quite. Al Capone owed 39 days to the Hole. Isn’t so fun being the underdog, is it?! He drove him so nuts that when he was freed in 1939, he died a few years later. He wasn’t the only one who had died because of Alcatraz. Teddy Cole, a kidnapper and a murderer, was sent to the “Rock” for 50 years. But he did not stay long. In December in 1937, he and a bank robber named Ralph Roe teamed up. Sawing the bars off a window,

Timothy Souders was in an inferior place and suicidal when he went to jail at twenty-one for shoplifting. In his cell he brook a stool and tried to flood the cell. He was then locked up in his cell in the 100 degree weather. He denied water and died in four days. Many tragic things happen in jail such as rape, beatings, embarrassing strip searchings and gang violence. Many of these things happen from the guards and lawyers. Lawyers are know for slipping drugs in their shoes, guards have been known for selling drugs and alcohol to the inmates. A prisoner said he noticed a guard from the pub and says the guard brought him a bottle of vodka every friday. Lisa Harris was caught smuggling a phone in to a prisoner who had raped his ex girlfriend and threw acid in her face.

In general, while the book mainly articulated the issue of power that cripples participation, none of the book chapters was able to fully unveil the dynamics of power relations that for me resulted into blindness in discussing the alternatives to participation.