Journal Entry #3
December 3, 2013
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An outside process you could think about with Orange is the New Black is what happens after prison life. People get so used to prison life and they aren't sure what to do once they get out. What kind of job can they get to be able to make a healthy living and move on with their life completely? The help from job services and halfway houses can be helpful but some people have such a little clue of what they should be doing that they don't know where to go from prison. I think it's very important to provide adequate services from the government for those in need of assistance. After all, they paid their dues in prison and their punishment should not have to extend past that.
Journal Entry #2
November 26, 2013
200/883
Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black, is an upper middle class blue collar worker who, ten years ago, committed a drug related crime. She got away with it at the time but someone she worked with gave her name to the cops and she is now paying her dues, in prison. I think the message she is trying to convey to her readers is more about what prison life is like then a 'don't do it' sort of situation. That's not to say that Piper Kerman is trying to tell her readers to work with the drug cartel but her writing is more of a memoir of her year spent in prison. We all hear stories of how gangs form and life is horrible and torturous but Orange is the New Black seems to shed light on the fact that prison life isn't all that different from regular life. Day comes and goes just like on the outside world and that's what really counts.
Journal Entry #1
November 18, 2013
141/883
I usually stick to non-fiction books. I like imagining whatever I'm reading about happening in real life and believing it. If the book isn't a memoir or story and just informational, I like applying what I learn to real life. Useful information is better than useless information. Orange is the New Black is a wittily written book by Piper Kerman. She's a thirty-something white collar citizen living in New York City with her soon to be fiancé. All of a sudden the feds come knocking on her door telling her that she is going to prison for a crime she committed ten years prior. At twenty-two, Piper thirsted for excitement. She found it in her next door neighbor/lesbian roommate/girlfriend/international drug lord. When Nora requested she fetch hundred's of thousands of dollars in a suit case being dropped off in Chicago, she said yes, and did so, successfully. Until one of the many people in the drug business gave her name to the police. She was sentenced to fifteen months in prison. Her memoir is about her time in prison.
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