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Analysis Of Etheridge Knight's Hard Rock Returns To Prison

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Etheridge Knight “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane” is about a man who stands against the workers of the jail. Hard Rock also represents how people struggle with police authority. The prisoner felt like Hard Rock saved them from a lot while in prison. The line “He had been our Destroyer, the doer of things” (504) talks about how Hard Rock destroyed the people for the prisoners. Hard Rock does things that the other prisoners would not imagine doing because of his reputation o f being violent. The next line “We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do” (504) describes how the prisoners wanted to stand up for themselves but they did not have the courage. Knight uses analogies to describe
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