On The Run Analysis

What is the right way of approaching the situation of the unfair acts of the Justice system? The book “On the Run” portrays a vivid story about a few families that live in a low social class neighborhood. The author talks about her studies, and how she got from point A to point B. She explained to us her studies that she has done before she acted on this “experiment”. She tells to us her research, and the stigma attached to these people who lives in this neighborhood. She got to stay with these people for an “x” amount of years and got insanely close to their families, and especially the women in that neighborhood. Her doing this caused some real problems in other people's eyes. Before this gets more in depth, there were obviously little
stumps on the journey to produce the answers she was looking for. There was controversy on may parts of the subject, but it was a good step in the right direction in my opinion. She starts her research off with “facts” and opinions she found out about those type of neighborhoods. She told us about the stigmas attached to these neighborhoods. When she left her well know, comfortable, and fourtantant part of town must have felt like a very vulnerable act. She goes into this new area in her life with a perceived notion of her surroundings. She got the opportunity to get to know one family, then another, and finally on to the next one. She stayed with the families, and you can almost say she became part of the family. She listened to these troubles, but also got a front row seat in seeing these people's hardship and struggle. She mentioned how she looked up what these neighborhoods were before she went, and going there was just a way to not experience it and claim it as something she’s going through, but showing her audience an eye witness point of view without being completely objective or anything in that nature.
She talks about how to got to know high school young boys of color, and compare and contrast what's their first priority is in life than the ones she knows about where she lives. Compared to other subcultures, his main focus is not getting in trouble with the law, making money or helping support their families , and then school. The young people she got to know really portrayed a vivid image of how hard it is to escape the system. There’s really a limited way out of this subculture, and if you find a way out you would have to work 10x harder than anyone else. She showed us a mental picture of how even when your son, brother, or even grandson gets arrested it takes a great toll on their families financially and even mentally. She also got the chance to especially become close to girlfriends of the men in prison, and got to go on long drives up to the facilities to see
them. There is really no way out of this type of situation. You have people who can really do nothing, and that leads to that big arrest to dedicate their whole lives. The author mentioned how there were patrol cars on all blocks 24/7 pulling over anyone in that neighborhood for no good reason and then taking their chance to do a search. It doesn’t matter if they possess a small amount of weed, or even for a broken tail light. There are always repercussions and quite too often it happens to the these people in these types of neighborhood. Doing all this research really made people upset in what they thought or beleives, to even the way to wrote this book.
Readers who don’t really agree need to understand one thing in my opinion to understand the big picture. Many people picked on how she used the present tense instead of using the past tense. This gave me a big light bulb feeling. If you really look in depth with that comment, you can really understand why she didn’t use the past tense. In a way, it’s kind of mind blowing and intelligent! She could have easily used the passed tense, but what good would be when this is still happening now. Having her go there and share other peoples experience with the world didn’t stop the issues that's going on there. The unfair acts of the Justice System really has been going in the U.S for as long as you can look back. The unfair acts that the Justice System acts upon people in this subculture really seems to help themselves in showing the issues. There are no equal right, and especially when it comes down to a topic like this. The author showed us many different perspectives and families in this book, but we really could boil it all down to one problem they all have alike. She did her studies before she entered these neighborhoods for a few years, and can really show the similarities and differences to her eye witnessing and the research she did
beforehand.