Analysis Of Old Boys Old Girls By Edward P. Jones

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Old Boys, Old Girls
In life, everybody in human society has different appetencies, so they do not care anything to achieve what they want, or they even break the law. Some people work in a hard way, so they achieve their goals. On the other hand, other people want to have what they want without hard working, so they break the law to achieve their goals. They become a thief or a bank robber, and other people sell cocaine to have money. All kinds of those people hurt the human life and human future, so the government always opens many crime sweeps to catch those people. The number of criminals is increasing day by day, so many prisons are established to keep the criminals in there. Then, the offenders will be educated what will help them become …show more content…

Cathedral had told and taught what Caesar has to do to survive in the prison. Violent behavior is the best way that helps prisoners have power and respect. “Caes, you gon be here a few days, so you can’t let nobody fuck with your humanity (Page 3),” written by Edward P.Jones, has proven that concern. In the prison, you have to hurt other people if you do not want other people hurt you. It is the truth at many prisons in our world. When a prisoner is not taught the right things, they will drag other inmates do bad things that they think it is good. It looks like an infectious disease, so an evil thought or behavior from a prisoner will infect to other inmates. Soon, the prison will become a place having full of violent scenes. The prison system has to have an education system to educate bad prisoners and keep new prisoner far away from …show more content…

Down Tenth was Lincoln’s death house. Up Tenth was the house where he had been a boy, and where the puppy was waiting for his father (Page 28).” In the story, Caesar becomes a person who has less confident than him before, so he has to rely on the quarter to make his decision. Moreover, He is overwhelmed because people outside are different very much with a lot of strange behaviors – “What kinda language you speakin, honey? Talk English if you want some,” is a different thing that Caesar cannot get used to that circumstance. It is a failure of the prison system because they should let or teach the prison how the world is changing. Moreover, the prison system needs to help the prisoners integrate with outside society before they are released. Therefore, the prison system is not good because the prisoners are not equipped with the appropriate knowledge to get used to with outside, so they lose their