In the final blog for the outside reading book "A Few Kind Words and A Loaded Gun" i will be analyzing pages 390-end. Smith Just found out that his son was hung by an unknown group of people and is completly overwhelmed. He blames himself for the death but later realizes that it wasn't his fault and that he is going to try to get back at whoever did it, " I may not have killed him but i will kill whoever did" (Smith 403). This insight to smith's connection to a son he bearly knew shows readers that he is still loyal to his family. This raises my personal level of respect for him because if he still has some of the values he started with he might be able to recover the other ones. Later after he gets off of his sentence a little early for good behavior, (which he didn't think he would get), he trys to make a living writing. However he can only make a gew quid that way so he has to become a street sweeper. He soon gets tired of this job and started doing the occansional job to get some money. Whith this half-crime half-normal life we see a little improvement in smith's character but later it falls apart. He gets some old friends together and they form a professional robberry firm. The "Flying Sqaud" (Bank robber police specialist) soon start to trace the firm's actions and nickname them the laughing bank robbers because on christmas they robbed a bank with santa hats and wished the tellers a merry christmas.
Now smith's thoughts return to his old age (40ish) and his lack of enjoyment from robbing. He realizes again that robbery isn't his game anymore and quits. He manages to get a job brick laying from his brother-in-law and is able to live off of that. However when brick laying isn't needed he does the odd smash and grab to get by. One day when he was getting ready to leave for some laying a bunch of black sedans and a van pulled up in his drive way. Natural instinct told him to speed away and that is exactly what he did. He managed to get the "flying Sqaud" in a high speed pursuit for fifteen minutes but then he is cornered and he is forced out of his car. A dozen armed officers surround him and give him the usual talk smith instantly responds ""#*$& YOU!" on cue as if i were an actor, to old to play the part" (smith 445). Smith finally understands that his life was wasted and now he is to old to do what he should've done, be a father. The book ends with a chapter called regrets and tells readers how he would've lived his life differently. Razor Smith is currently serving a life sentence in the london prison system, where he writes books and columns.
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I think that the events of his life really go to prove that we always need to remember we only have one life to live, so we really need to think about what direction we want to take our lives. I also think that is shows how the kind of people that you associate with really defines what kind of person you are.
He doesn't realize/remember who he killed (let alone his son?)... he must be psychotic. BTW, how does one get a book published while in prison? It seems Smith must have done some crazy things earlier to get a life sentence. Smith's life shows that the direction that someone chooses in life affects them significantly later.
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