Adam Barber

I think in the book there are alot of charicters that inspire the inmates of course their main inspiration is probably mark due to his history in writing and that he is now teaching these kids to write, but there are also others one being Granillo the man that was exercising them. I believe this charicter must be good inspiration because when people are locked up they tend to spend their time getting fitter and stronger, so i believe that their trainor probably is kind of a hard ass but when i really comes down to it they enjoy and cherish the limited time they have to train and spend outside.

Another charicter i found inspires these kids is sister janet it seems that even though these are tough street kids who usually dont show much respect to their elders when it comes to sister janet everyone will act respectful even fancisco who i see as somewhat of a class clown but when sister janet came in the room he was definately the most polite out of the three.

In my life i havent been able to meet alot of people who inspire me but their are a couple that i admire from a distance. One is my favourite artist of all time Jeremy Fish ever since I saw the music video for aesop rocks (my favourite rappers) song none shall pass i have been obsessed with his extremely original style of drawing and painting and the fact that hes so famouse today in the modern world which in my eyes is something you dont see much in these days. Another inspirational artist for me is alex pardee who is also an artist for another one of my favourite rappers "Cage". Although Jeremys art fits me much more than alexes and i look up to jeremy alot more Alex has been an artist that i have been looking into for some years now and his dark yet cartoon inpossible to discribe style still blows my mind everytime i see it.

I believe the harsh upbringing that these kids had to expierience probably made them alot stronger than any normal person but at the same time they probably have alot of trouble opening themselves up to people which is why im so amzed by the fact that they speakk so deaply about themselves in their writing and have the strength to read it infront of four other people expecially while in juvy where if you dont show ur tough side ur screwed...

I have honestly not expierienced alot of loss in my life but since i am somewhat new to it i am affected very strongly by it when it does come up. Like for one instance this girl emily that iv had a thing with since freshmen year and ive knownt since i moved here got in some trouble last year and was sent to michigan for boarding school. This hurt me alot because ever sincce i had been here i had her to talk to even when we didnt have a thing she was my best freind and i had forgotten what life was like without her to talk to whenever i wanted. It hurt the most because she just up and left, she thought that if we kept going on like we were when it came time for her to leave it would be to painfull. so she avoided me up until she left only seeing me the day before she left where she told me how much she regreted it but it was to late after that she was gone and i had alot of emotional problems for a couple months. After i got over it though i felt like nothing could hurt me again so that is why i believe loss although is a sad expierience its manditory to make you a better person.