Summary Of Paul Warren's Accomplice In Thailand Prison

To sum up the book in 5 sentences, it was a book about this guy who got caught smuggling Heroin from Thailand to Australia. He got caught in Thailand after they suspected this drug activity at the airport one of the previous times, and the Thailand police contacted the Australian police about it and wanted them to keep a close eye on him, so they did and then put him and his accomplice in Thailand prison, at first he got “life” and the prisons there are nothing like how they are here. He spent most of his time in Bang Kwang, but anywhere he went the guards beat the prisoners, sometimes to death, and they liked chains around the ankles. There was a riot one time when this person in Building Four (one of the worst places) stabbed a guard and everyone in that building followed, him and Paul stayed in their cell fearing about what the guards would do, which was making them crawl through human feces. Heroin was very big thing in the prisons as

Paul, Warren’s accomplice and best friend, was faced with a challenge and he accepted. This Black American prisoner had asked him if he wanted to “break concrete” Paul who was a boxer replied “‘I don’t want to break concrete. But I’ll be happy to put your head through that cage over there.’ The American wasn’t surprised by Paul’s retort. It appeared he knew something about Paul’s history.” (Fellows 122). Relating this to what we learned in class, “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison is the perfect piece. If we recall Invisible Man it’s about white men making young knowledgeable black men fight other black people and many white people watching. “I could hear the bleary voices yelling insistently for the battle royal to begin.” (Ellison 3). Men in prison need to show dominance and that is why they fight, being forced to fight for entertainment is a different story, but is fighting