9/24/2013
Assignment 9 Shawshank Redemption "Brooks Was Here"
Please answer ANY ONE of the following questions.
1. Pretend you are Brooks. Tell your friends about your life in jail.
2. Pretend you are Brooks. Tell your friends about your life after you become a "free man".
3. Why did Brooks commit suicide?
4. How can the government or the society help people like Brooks?
5. Do you have anything that you want to tell Brooks? Write a letter to Brooks.
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Answer to Q1:
ReplyDeleteLife in jail wasn't as worse as people thought.I feel free and have a simple and easy life inside.For me,it's much better than outside
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Answer to Q3:
ReplyDeleteBrooks committed suicide because he was in the jail for a long time. When he came out from the jail, it was a completely different world. He was lonely outside, and he had nothing eager to do. All he can do was to end his life.
Answer to Q4:
ReplyDeleteGovernment to give them more help, and the society to give they more care.Maybe
that can let they can spend the rest serenity.
Dear my friends
ReplyDeleteLife outside the jail is very different from inside. I can wear anything I want, eat anything I want, do anything I want. Bur after I am used to living in the jail, I am afraid of the life outside. Life in the jail is simple. Maybe lots of people are scared of living in the jail. For me, I prefer the life in the jail.
1. If I were Brooks, I would tell them that life in jail is mysterious. We could meet many different kinds of friends.
ReplyDelete2. Becoming a free man is a challenge for me. The world outside changes a lot.
3. I think it must because there is no friend who wants to talk with him, and no one care about him.
4. I think they should take more care of them. Don’t just let them go and never care about them.
5. Dear Brooks, I am sorry that you don’t have any friend who was in jail. But you must have to be stronger. The government just like a shit. They don’t have any conscience. Please be more courageous. Go!!!
4. How can the government or the society help people like Brooks?
ReplyDeleteThe goverment can enable he to teach students whom may make trouble in the school, tell the consequence if they do not be a good student.Also can give him a course to teach the history because he is very old ,there are many things different from his times.
4. I think the government should help people to teach them some skills or abilities.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, they can't even do anything in the society. If the government teach them something,they can survive in the society.
3.Brooks was old and had been in the prison for 50 years, so he didn't have any family or friends outside the jail. He had been in the prison for so long that everything outside seemed different, so he didn't feel himself still belonged to this world anymore, and that was why he committed suicide.
ReplyDeleteanswer to Q4
ReplyDeletePeople like Brook who served a long prison term aren't like the young free men adjusting to the outside so quickly, so those need more help.I think being a librarian, a priest, or a keeper will be an appropriate job for them, because they don't have to intercourse to others more, and they don't need to change much.
Answer to Q3:
ReplyDeleteBrooks suicided because he was in the jail for a very long time, and his like the live in the jail. Besides, there are no friends outside the jail. When he came out from the jail, it was a completely instinct world. He must be very lonely. So, he commit suicide.
3.Brooks committed suicide because he couldn't adapt the society again. He was already used to living in the prison, and he couldn't accept the change of the modern times.
ReplyDeleteAnswer to Q1:
ReplyDeleteHello my friend! I couldn't sleep well after getting out of the jail. Everything in the jail is unforgettable, and I felt sad when leaving. Even do I decided to kill someone so as to stay in it! People trust me, and I am used to being an libarian in the jail's library. i couldn't think and do anything in this strange world! It's different between the outside world and the jail!
Q3:
ReplyDeleteBrooks had already been in the jail for over fifty years, like Red said, " He's just institutionalized. " Once you stay at a same place for such a long time, and suddenly you are free, no one can easily accept it. Besides, Brooks had no idea how much it changed outside. He was used to the "routine" in the jail. Now it was broken, so he choose to end his life.
Sometimes you can meet some real friends in life in jail,who can accompany you all the time.
ReplyDeleteAnswer to Q3
ReplyDeleteBrooks had wasted long time in the jail. The outsdie had become different,and the things he knew were changed.He couldn't accept these changes and he choose to die.
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