In my second blog i will be summarizing and anaylzing pages 86-133. He just got out of Send one of the most notorious juvenile systems and was involved in a car chase the first day he was out. He managed to escape and then later in the summer he finds a few buddies and buys a sawed off shot-gun and a luger. The luger is completly out of shape and doesn't work but the shotgun works fine. He never fires the guns during robberies, "robbery is all about confidence and attitude, and if you don't have a bottle in the first place, then no amount of fire power will make you a good blagger" (93). Smith has an immense amount of respect for human life and will not fire on the people he robs for two reasons, one your time in jail will almost triple and the second is that he is compassionate. One of his best times is the summer of 76', he and his team go on a number of armed robberies, (no banks yet), and are on the teddy-boy scene. The teddy boys are a type of gang brotherhood, that is interested in the rock music genre. After he gets nicked for a number of charges that he commited in the summer he is sent to latchmere house, a "real" prison. In this prison he meets another teen named Jel, together they manage to throw a bag of poop on a vicious "screw" (one of the prison gaurds). He is sentenced to 3 years at Ashford prison. When he is in custody after trial he meets three real "chaps" and models his entire life from that point after them. They wore sharp suits and were treating with respect from the screws. Here he meets up with some old pals and a few new. They are treated specialy because they are under an extremly rare and harsh law, called section 53. when they meet up they instantly start to haze the sex offenders and "nounces" in their turf. (nounces are usually sex offenders who want to be with the "normal" prison crowd and refuse protection, then they snitch on the "normal" crowd to the screws). This shows that Smith still has morals but they are different than the straight goers morals. Smith's morals include sticking for his friends and cleaning the prison of perverts. He shows that he has some highly attractive qaulities such as loyalty and determination. You can also tell that he has a sense of humor because he and his friend threw some poop on a screw that was giving everyone in the prison trouble. Amongst his qaulities his best one is his intellegence. He shows this through by saying in court that he is a soldier of the army of crime and according to the geneva convention he should be trying to escape from prison all the time. He backs this up with head lines talking about the "war" on crime. The judge is humored by this, and the prosecution is infuriated. However the persecution say that for the geneva covention to apply to him his state must of signed the convetion and the underground criminal world, isn't really a state.
citation on previous post.
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It seems that though he has some type of morals, they have been twisted and distorted to fit his situation. It seems a little odd that he would have no problem robbing people, but yet he refuses to kill them, and yet he hazes the "nounces." He seems to be very intelligent and creative but he puts his efforts in the wrong places. Instead of using his intelligence to change the world in a peaceful way, he commits crimes that land him in jail, where he continues to misbehave. Though he stands up for his friends and opposes the "perverts" his actions display morals that are not good or not existent.
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