Summary Of Just Mercy, The Midnight Zone

How do things around you change who you are? Looking at different texts made it more apparent how it affects day-to-day life. The author’s of “Just Mercy, The Truman Show, The Midnight Zone, Given to Rust, My True South” uses elements to develop a theme of how places, environments and others shape the individual. One way that places, environments and others can shape the individual is in our justice system or having death looking over your shoulder. One place or environment that shapes the individual is being put on death row in 1983, Bryan is trying his best to help the wrongfully convicted inmates in an Alabama prison be free again. In the book “Just Mercy” the author and his work colleagues are shaped and changed by their environment and

The characters in the text are nervous and suspicious of how the public is going to act, during their court case. With the feeling of death upon them, this can connect with the story “The Midnight Zone”. Throughout the short story the readers see a panther as a symbol of death, the author illustrates: “I looked at a hunting magazine, which made me remember the Florida panther. I hadn’t truly forgotten about it, but could manage only a few terrors at a time” (Groff, 41). As the main character has life and death in the same hand by the wound on her head, she is trying to forget the panther and death and only worry about her children and how to get help. When she thinks of the panther, she starts to give to the panther and sink more and more towards death and the darkness of the night. Both of these texts shape the individual by creating an environment that has death surrounding the characters and no escape. Being in a place surrounded by strangers or others who are familiar can shape the individual. This is easily seen in the short story given to Rust and the movie The Truman Show. Both sources have a similar message the audience can see and