September Post Reading

Post Reading

“When the noose gets tight around somebody’s neck, they’re liable to say anything to save their own skin.”  This quote is very easy to relate to. This happens in everyday life. People lie to help themselves. This is one of the most selfish things a person can do. Sometimes people put others in their situation by lying about them just to save themselves. People in school do this all the time. Like when someone blames someone else for something they did and then that person gets in trouble. Sometimes people do this just to get other people into trouble. Say someone tells a teacher that you stole something of theirs or that you skipped in the lunch line , then you get in trouble and they might get your item or they might get ahead of you in line because they lied. These are the type of selfish things people do.

      This relates to the book as well. In the book when Marcus is caught and arrested Eddy is off getting his scholarship and trying not to get caught and saying things to keep the heat off of him. He let his best friend get in trouble instead of him just because he didn't wanna fess up to it. This is really selfish or him. But it reflects his humanity and how people are in real life. This is just like how people put themselves before others to survive. In a situation of life or death, or in this case, prison or freedom, people will choose themselves over others. They will lie and cheat and maybe even kill to keep themselves out of trouble.

        This also relates to our human nature essays. I said that people are evil, this adds to that fact. There are people who will send people to jail maybe even for life just to keep themselves out of trouble. And it makes it even worse that half of these people lie about people close to them to stay out of the trouble that they put themselves into and in most cases it is no other person's fault that they did this, and the people they lie about half of the time have nothing to do with the situation.

       Another example is corrupt police officers. Officers of the law that plant evidence on people or on crime scenes to justify their warrants and suspicions and end up sending these people to prison. Or people who make false claims about others and get then sent to jail until it is found out that this is untrue.

    This is a very powerful quote that can apply to both real life and the book. I think that everyone can relate to it.