How Does Jimmy Valentine Change

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“ YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW EASY IT IS TO FALL BACK INTO THE DARKNESS.’’(HEALTHYPLACE.COM) This quote is right about Jimmy Valentine. He went to prison for cracking safes. And when he got out he didn’t change, but he tried. Jimmy tried to start a new life as Ralph Spencer, but when a little girl got locked in a safe Ralph died and Jimmy was back to his old ways. Jimmy Valentine didn’t change, because at the end he went back to his old ways, He went back to where he lived to get his tools, and at the end of the story he left his new life.
Jimmy Valentine didn’t change because he went back to where he lived to get his tools. “ Pulling out from the wall a folding-bed, Jimmy slid back a panel in the wall and

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