Arguido

In the excerpt, the author compares the officers and criminals in an interrogation room through the means of analogies. The analogy that the author uses to compare the two is that the officers imagine a small opening or “window” that is the escape route that every suspect tries to reach so they can escape the interrogation and resume back to their regular lives . The suspect must carefully choose his words carefully for every word that he or she utters is heard and not taken back, which becomes a game of words against words. The suspect pulls every trick that he or she may have up her sleeve in order to not give away any obvious information that leads them to being the perpetrator of such crimes that were committed. Most commonly, the guilty suspect tries to flee from the interrogation room at the very start which is also the officer’s first point to notice when inside the interrogation room with the suspect. From here the two have their battle with words which becomes the ultimate game of betrayal, in seeing whose lie gets twisted first and is noticed. Both the officer and the suspect try to get on equal ground where there is none in order to see who wins the game of betrayal. The author speaks to the people that are Police Officers and even criminals by comparing both of the two with analogies, showing the relationship shared between the two and is seen from “ the window is as much the suspect’s fantasy and the detective’s mirage.” This also speaks to the audience who…