By Krystal Durr
Important Essay

My first thought about the book was it was intriguing and pleasing to the eye. The way the author introduced his thoughts was really good. In the first section of the book he talks about prison and how awful it was to be contained. He remembers the time when his father pointed out criminals and told him what terrible things they had done. Flabbergasted at his keen sense to spot a criminal. Jack says his father pointed out all these bad men but never pointed him out. As the story goes on he tells how he winds up in the predicament where he is talking from his cell. Jack recalls a time in his adolescent years where he wants to be a writer but he has nothing to write about. He goes to school where he lives in a motel for his entire senior year. For him he had ultimate freedom. He ventured out on his own, keeping journals and notes of famous quotes showing that he really wanted to be a writer. As the book went on he talks about the struggle he had with getting high and his drinking of alcohol. After the graduation he believes that college is not for him, it just not for him as he eased out of the interview finding any excuse not go.
This part was the turning point to me. Jack not wanting to go to school got him in trouble that he didn’t bargain for. I believed that if he would have put a little more into wanted to succeed instead chasing money he would have ended up differently. It’s crazy how one bad decision can change you life forever. It always leaves you with what if’s one small decision turned into a big decision that you made a bad call on. Jack regrets what he has done but now it’s too late. He is already in jail. He is doing time for a drug distribution and trafficking. He knows that this will change his life. He is incarcerated with killers and it kills him to be associated with those types of people.