Wasted Life In Larry Lehna's The Look

Another theme, personal identity, is seen throughout all of the characters in the book. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of

the characters. The story reminds his audience that a man is more than a father. He is

This is a very important part of the book because it shows the reader that the

For over centuries, the only form of punishment and discouragement for humans is through the prison system. Because of this, these humans or inmates, are sentenced to spend a significant part of their life in a confined, small room. With that being said, the prison life can leave a remarkable toll on the inmates life in many different categories. The first and arguably most important comes in the form of mental health. Living in prison with have a great impact on the psychological part of your life. For example, The prison life is a very much different way of life than what us “normal” humans are accustomed to living in our society. Once that inmate takes their first step inside their new society, their whole mindset on how to live and communicate changes. The inmate’s psychological beliefs about what is right and wrong are in questioned as well as everything else they learned in the outside world. In a way, prison is a never ending mind game you are playing against yourself with no chance of wining. Other than the mental aspect of prison, family plays a very important role in an inmate’s sentence. Family can be the “make it or break it” deal for a lot of inmates. It is often said that “when a person gets sentenced to prison, the whole family serves the sentence.” Well, for many inmates that is the exact case. While that prisoner serves their time behind bars, their family is on the outside waiting in anticipation for their loved ones to be released. In a way, the families

For example, in the passage cited immediately above, the narrator is actually presenting the very thoughts of the protagonist; this is done on numerous occasions in the tale. This contributes to the development of Goodman

There are stories he incorporates to illustrate the point. In the middle we move to a more self-centered narrative. He tells of his story in New Jersey where he realized he could kill someone. He shares some of his thoughts of why people acted as they did towards him and others. This is an effective way he uses narrating and analyzing to work for the reader’s understanding.

The narrator though an educator, is not very good at verbalizing his emotions. He tends to be the person who keeps everything inside

At the beginning of the story, the narrator provides a brief description of himself that allows readers to reflect upon his character and morality. He introduces himself as someone who believes that

He tells him about the fire he enjoys, his search for food, running into people that are scared of him and shun him away, and how he finally finds a small place to stay and watches a family from a crack within one of the walls.

In this chapter, as in many other chapters, he intersperses short sentences into his narrative. In fact, some of his paragraphs in this chapter are only 1 sentence long. What kind of information is conveyed in these short paragraphs?

the most important literary elements in the story. He takes a young black boy and puts

There was one idea in particular that really struck me in this book. Though it is merely a story in part II and not a main

For instance, during chapter four of the text, Tormes spoke upon the time he spent with

this is his role in the events of the play. This, and the fact that

I personally believe the filmmakers created this film to get awareness out for how hard it is for paroles to reintegrate back into civilian life. Also I feel that the filmmakers have four key points that I found within this film. These four key points have a huge role in parole and what makes it so hard for these people to get their lives straight. The first key point is poverty. Poverty makes getting