My Life Stood a Loaded Gun: a Summary My life Had Stood a Loaded Gun takes place in Vermont based around the author Theo Padnos. Theo is a college student who is trying to become a teacher. However during his last semester he did not pass a few classes that halted his graduation. With bills and rent Padnos still coming Padnos decided that he needed to get a full time job until he felt ready to go back and graduate. Padnos applied to numerous places unfortunately getting rejected by all of them. When he was beginning to give up hope he saw an add for a teacher at the local jail. He submitted his application with a small lie saying that he would graduate in a couple months after a few formalities had been cleared up. He was called in for an
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He picked it because he knew they would be able to relate to the relationship struggle as well as the underlying message when Huck was planning his escape. After the prisoners have read and gotten to know Padnos they began confessing what had actually gotten them into prison as well as when they were expecting to be released and the price of bail. One prisoner in particular Larid begins telling Padnos of his life before his crime and his girlfriend. He believed his girlfriend had been talking to the police because she had been refusing to visit him and his bail had gone from 750,000 to 1.5 million dollars. He stated that he had already been betrayed by his father who turned him in when the police had no physical evidence against him he was sent to jail only by the eyewitness account of his father. A few months later some of Padnos’s students had been released from jail leaving him mire free time. He began listening to a local radio show and the speaker had published a few essays and Padnos began to read them and became really moved by one in particular. He read it over and over again inspiring him to return to college and finish his
He picked it because he knew they would be able to relate to the relationship struggle as well as the underlying message when Huck was planning his escape. After the prisoners have read and gotten to know Padnos they began confessing what had actually gotten them into prison as well as when they were expecting to be released and the price of bail. One prisoner in particular Larid begins telling Padnos of his life before his crime and his girlfriend. He believed his girlfriend had been talking to the police because she had been refusing to visit him and his bail had gone from 750,000 to 1.5 million dollars. He stated that he had already been betrayed by his father who turned him in when the police had no physical evidence against him he was sent to jail only by the eyewitness account of his father. A few months later some of Padnos’s students had been released from jail leaving him mire free time. He began listening to a local radio show and the speaker had published a few essays and Padnos began to read them and became really moved by one in particular. He read it over and over again inspiring him to return to college and finish his