Summary Of Hook A Memoir By Randall T. Horton

To have a timeline of one’s life is to know the truths, lies, hidden treasures, the good times, and the bad times. When people decide to evaluate themselves and everything they have been through it is best to not leave out any details. Every single piece is detrimental to the puzzle. While reading Hook: A Memoir by Randall T. Horton I noticed that even when he didn’t want to, he made sure he was honest about his past. Hook reads as a timeline of Horton's life from when he attended Howard University, through his many years struggling with addiction as a drug dealer, and how he chose to rehabilitate himself once being released from prison. In the beginning, I felt sorry for Horton and is pen pal Lxxxx who had also been in and out of the prison system. However, the further I read into the text I

Hook grew up in a small town in Alabama. According to his father at his trial, he was “…respectful of others. Displayed proper manners. [Went] to church every Sunday and made decent grades” (p.154). Randall, Hooks government name, was a model citizen. So much so that he landed himself at Howard University. Yet his group of friends and their thoughts on how Howard was just for the bourgeois black folk and not country boys likes him drove him to ruin it all. Hook smoked and sniffed more drugs than he sold around campus, and witnessed his friend murder because of it. When he was kicked out of school he went home and cleaned his parents out to go on a coke binge. This landed him in the home of the very man that he was selling drugs for. After escaping the law and drug lords for what felt like years Hook was locked p after he couldn’t escape the police. He was caught attempting to flee a store that he and his accomplice were about to rob. He would have gotten away but his partner got scared and told the police everything. From that moment on Hook knew he would be in jail for years to