Why Do Betts Become Successful?

Throughout the memoir, A Question of Freedom, Dwayne Betts had faced a lot of obstacles and limited choices/decisions behind bars in a Fairfax County Jail in Virginia. There are many reasons why others define Betts as a “felon,” but he describes himself as a “success,” Betts chose himself as a “learner,”. Others define me as “motivated” and others define Betts between “failure to success”. In addition, failure is a negative side to face in life and becoming successful is a positive side to face in life. This relates to the label of being who you are and some of the challenges that Betts resists the challenges or not. In the other hand, Betts had changed a lot by learning a valuable lesson of not to carjack no more but I become successful by …show more content…
A felon is “a person who has been convicted of a felony.” (dictionary.com). and success is “the accomplishment of an aim/purpose.” (dictionary.com). This is because he was basically arrested for carjacking, convicted of 6 felony charges and he soon earned both a GED and a high school diploma in prison earlier. Betts wrote, “I knew when I went before the judge he’d talked to me like I didn’t think about the victim. […]” (60) and “I become one of the first two people to receive a high school diploma while locked up in a Fairfax County Jail.” (55). This quote means that, he is trying to explain to the judge of what he did something unlawful by carjacking terribly wrong that he couldn’t believe it and to begin studying hard and doing well in prison by receiving both his GED and a high school diploma. In fact, he accepted the label of felon because he has to accept what he did wrong and unlawful and to prove that being a “felon” had really made him feel really guilty that there is no place to escape and to suffer with no mattress locked up in a jail …show more content…
A learner is “a person who is learning a subject/skill.” (dictionary.com). This is secondly because after he was locked up in a Fairfax County Jail, he had immediately had applied to top schools in the US like Yale and he soon got accepted it as a full scholarship and to start studying it very hard and seriously. Betts wrote, “I studied Spanish for three hours every day by working through one of the textbooks I found at the library, writing every page in longhand, then doing the assignments and giving them to another inmate to grade. […]” (229). We can say that, studying and practicing another language like Spanish is all about a strategy that learning and practicing on how to speak Spanish takes time for him to develop and understand its target language in order to understand its culture and heritage. As a non-native Spanish speaker, Spanish also takes time for him to review and to understand the language like pronouncing the word soledad