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Who Is The Antagonist In Dead Man Walking

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In this world half of the adult's follow their parent's or grandparent's path as their guardians and receive theirs thoughts or words as their guideline for their life in better way but. Helen and Phelps they fallow their and view the same point but they not fallowing their guideline and its because of their job.
In the book "Dead Man Walking" Helen Prejean is a main character and an narrator of the book. Hellen tells us about her experience of being spiritual advisor for inmate named Patrick Sonnier and he was sentenced to death for killing the two teenagers. In the begging Helen was working for housing for poor people and when Helens friend Chava Colon asked Helen to be a " pen pal" to the death row inmate and Helens answer was "sure", …show more content…

and when Helen met with Phelps the firs thing she recognizes Phelps is "soft-spoken" man and the photograph of his family.and when Helen asks Phelps what has been accomplished by the execution, and he says "Zero" meaning nothing. and Phelps doesn't think that the death penalty is just or useful but. Mr.Phelps feels he is just doing his job and following the law. And Phelps says if he felt he couldn't do the job, he'd have to resign which would be bad for inmates, because he does his job thoughtfully and compassionately. and when Helen asked Phelps how he designed how should execution work Phelps told Helen he designed the execution process, and it had to be done so that the executioner would be anonymous. and Phelps explains how they hiring an executioner "we hide a man an electrician who filled out a civil service application for the job. Frank Blackburn," and Blackburn says gave him a name "Sam Jones". it means No one wants to know about the executioner and who is he. and Helen acknowledges that the situation is

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