Delia feels as though her life is falling all around her, she found out she was a victim of a kidnapping by her own father almost thirty years ago, and that her mother is alive and lives in Arizona. Her world is completely turned upside down and she doesn’t know what to do or how to feel. “But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all? And if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like you’ve been here before? How am I going to be an optimist about this?” (Pompeii Bastille) I chose the song Pompeii by Bastille because the lyrics basically describe how Delia is feeling, she doesn’t know what to do and wishes that she had her old life back. As her father is in jail and awaiting trial, she keeps recollecting
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He makes very few friends during his time there and the people that do become his friends get killed. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, just me, myself, and I. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, stand a little taller” (Clarkson What Doesn’t Kill You) While in jail Andrew had to face some very difficult decisions and situations. He had to put his trust in convicts that could try to kill him. Andrew’s life has been risked during his stay, but he is determined to get back to his old way of life and just forget all of this. He has to try to fit in and that always doesn’t have the greatest outcomes. After the only person Andrew trusts is murdered, he is on his own, with nobody to protect him and nobody he can trust. He feels the violence of prison is like the beast of his nightmares come to life.☺ After Andrew is released from jail he is described as beaten and rough looking, but this only makes him stand taller, as the song says, because he is a changed man and he will never be the same after what he had to go through. He decides not to become callous and angry, Andrew takes from his experiences and builds himself as a person. “There is a shot... I shimmy out from underneath the bunk and catch Concise as he falls off the stool… ‘Who did this?’ I scream into the crowd that has already gathered. I try to find the shooter, but all I see are stripes.” (Picoult 308) I think this quote is really important because it describes Concise, Andrew’s only friend in the jail, being shot. This leaves him alone with nobody to trust, but as the song says, this experience for Andrew made him stronger and overall a totally different man when he left the
He makes very few friends during his time there and the people that do become his friends get killed. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, just me, myself, and I. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, stand a little taller” (Clarkson What Doesn’t Kill You) While in jail Andrew had to face some very difficult decisions and situations. He had to put his trust in convicts that could try to kill him. Andrew’s life has been risked during his stay, but he is determined to get back to his old way of life and just forget all of this. He has to try to fit in and that always doesn’t have the greatest outcomes. After the only person Andrew trusts is murdered, he is on his own, with nobody to protect him and nobody he can trust. He feels the violence of prison is like the beast of his nightmares come to life.☺ After Andrew is released from jail he is described as beaten and rough looking, but this only makes him stand taller, as the song says, because he is a changed man and he will never be the same after what he had to go through. He decides not to become callous and angry, Andrew takes from his experiences and builds himself as a person. “There is a shot... I shimmy out from underneath the bunk and catch Concise as he falls off the stool… ‘Who did this?’ I scream into the crowd that has already gathered. I try to find the shooter, but all I see are stripes.” (Picoult 308) I think this quote is really important because it describes Concise, Andrew’s only friend in the jail, being shot. This leaves him alone with nobody to trust, but as the song says, this experience for Andrew made him stronger and overall a totally different man when he left the