Module 4 Discussion
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Module 4 Discussion
Postone paragraphthat reflects upon the relationship between crime and punishment in one of the readings from this module. Identify the crime the character commits and the punishment received. Discuss both its victims and its punishment. Be sure to support your points with specific examples and quotes from the poem or story. You must document quotes with proper in-text citations.
Be sure to respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings. When responding to your classmates, you must address your postings to the person you are responding to on the discussion board. You must write in complete sentences using proper grammar rules.
Discussion 4 – E. Jefferson
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Elbony Jefferson posted Sep 15, 2020 2:14 PM
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Hard Rock is the main character in the poem Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane. He is a prisoner who is known for being mean and not letting anyone bully him. As a result he had multiple physical injuries, split purple lips, lumped ears, welts above his yellow eyes(Knight 3-5) After committing the crime of hitting the Prison Guard Captain with his dinner tray, Hard Rock received the punishment of being thrown into Solitary confinement. He set the record for time in the Hole67 straight days!(Knight 18-19) Doctors performed a brain surgery on Hard Rock where they took out some of his brain and gave him a shock treatment. Hard Rock was no longer a mean person and he would never be the same again.
Works Cited
Knight, Etheridge.The Essential Etheridge Knight: Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane.University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986.
Module 4 Discussion
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Madison Ellertson posted Sep 14, 2020 6:14 PM
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The poem Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane by Etheridge Knight describes several examples of crime and subsequent punishment. The most straightforward example of crime and punishment in the poem is described in the following line:
Yeah, remember when he
Smacked the captain with his dinner tray? He set
The record for time in the Hole67 straight days! (Knight 17-19)
In this line, it is clear that Hard Rock was sent to solitary for 67 days as punishment for attacking the captain with his dinner tray. Another example of punishment described in this poem comes in the form of this line:
Anymore, that the doctors had bored a hole in his head,
Cut out part of his brain, and shot electricity
Through the rest. (Knight 8-10)
Although it is not clear exactly which crime Hard Rock committed to illicit this punishment, it is clearly the most severe. Not only does the lobotomy and electroconvulsive therapy have a direct impact on Hard Rock, causing him to
Just grinned and looked silly,
His eyes empty like knot holes in a fence, (Knight 27-28)
But it also had an impact on his fellow inmates. The other inmates were also punished by the punishment carried out on Hard Rock because he was no longer able to stand up against injustices and protect the others. The fear that the person they looked up to the most was effectively destroyed is displayed in the line:
And we turned away, our eyes on the ground. Crushed.
He had been our Destroyer, the doer of things
We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do, (Knight 33-35)
Works Cited
Knight, Etheridge. Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane. The Essential Etheridge Knight, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 1986.
