The critical incident that arguably changed Grady from an innocent, arrogant, and inexperienced person to a mature and experienced one was being sent to a Mexican prison. The reason this can be determined as a critical incident is because it removed Grady’s arrogance and approaching a situation close-minded through the execution of Blevins, the removal of innocence when he murdered an assassin in self-defense and an overall change of destination/outcome between Rawlins and Grady. During the execution of Blevins, through insufficient knowledge (by being close-minded), Grady assumed that the Mexican judicial system was referenced by the American legal system as Grady claimed, “They don’t have capital punishment in this country”, as said on page …show more content…
After this incident, Grady’s arrogance was challenged (as he thought the world was just by comparing American ways to Mexican, which deemed incorrect), gradually sustaining and adapting the Mexican culture. Following the incident, Rawlins and Grady are then sent to a federal Mexican prison, resulting in multiple critical incidents. As Grady’s ignorance and close-mindedness persist after encountering Perez (of whom told that “security” was needed and would not come free), an assassin was hired (by Perez) to kill Grady. However, Grady quickly realized the attack and murdered the assassin in self-defense. Therefore, this was one of the bigger critical incidents to occur among Grady as it completely removed his innocence and ignorance to current situations through the acts of murdering a man and receiving wounds in the process. Nevertheless, as Rawlins and Grady leave the Mexican prison through bail, Rawlins suggests that he head on back to Texas, as he has gone through experiences and wounds no normal 17-year-old kid should have suffered and simply did not have the drive to pursue Grady’s dream of the ranch-life (outside of