![]() ![]() That May, US customs officials appeared at their home to tell Piper that she was indicted on conspiracy charges related to her old drug smuggling activities. The happy couple moved to New York City for work in 1998. He was not the risk-seeking, hip, bohemian type she had traditionally been attracted to, but he was good-hearted, kind, and loved her intensely-and Piper found, this was all she ever wanted. She landed a job as a television producer and editor, working primarily on infomercials and met and fell in love with a man named Larry. Piper began a more conventional, risk-free life, glad to have put her criminal past behind her. Ultimately, Piper ended her relationship with Nora and cut off all ties with her. ![]() Nora thought little of putting Piper at great legal and physical risk if it meant more profit for the drug smuggling operation. She knew that Nora was untrustworthy, dangerous, and fully willing to exploit her for her own advantage. Despite the glamour of her jet-setting lifestyle, however, Piper had growing apprehensions about what she was doing. Piper was a privileged, well-educated white woman from an upper-middle-class family.Shortly after graduating college in the early 1990s, Piper became involved with her girlfriend Nora Jansen’s international drug smuggling operation. Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison is a memoir by Piper Kerman, detailing her experiences as an inmate at a federal women’s prison, where she served for just over a year. ![]() ![]() 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Orange is the New Black ![]()
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![]() ![]() The two have a relaxed conversation, even though Alma is married. Afterward, Alma greets people outside, and a man named Victor Conway comes up to her. He also doesn’t go to church much, so he takes his cues from Curtis as to when to interact and sing during the sermon. He also recalls seeing blacks on buses “on TV, from Nashville, Montgomery, Birmingham, Jackson” (70), and the drama unfurling around the country, although he doesn’t understand any of it. Jimmy “really didn’t know what a Black Muslim was” (69), though he listened to people both for and against the militant stance of Malcom X. ![]() Curtis hears churchgoers talking about Black Muslims who were gunned down that week. He’s wearing one of Cory’s suits, and he feels like part of the family. Jimmy ( James Lanier) goes to church with Alma and her sons, Curtis and Cory. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All are born with halters round their necks, but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. (Hardwick 66) The connections he makes are profound and amazing and most definitely reveal the author’s own views: ![]() ![]() Ishmael is the object through which Melville himself speaks. Ishmael’s desire to analyze and explain allows the reader to gain much insight through the narration of his experiences. Consequently, he becomes a crewmember aboard the Pequod in order to gain the experience of being a sailor for the first time on a whaling vessel. Ishmael’s chief motivating factor is his thirst for knowledge. (Melville 16) His views on culture, religion and the whaling industry reveal him as a thoughtful, open-minded individual. “ Ishmael is an intellectual and a philosopher, a person who carefully examines what he sees around him.” (Buell 63) His casual introduction of “ Call me Ishmael” gives the reader a feeling of familiarity and friendship. Ishmael, the narrator of the story, never gives the reader a complete physical description of himself, but it may be inferred that he is a strong young man of average build and perhaps a tan complexion due to his previous service on board merchant ships. Herman Melville’s novel contains three main characters: Ishmael, Captain Ahab, and Moby Dick. ![]() ![]() ![]() As with all of Kikuchi’s novels this maintains a certain weird fiction feel to it. ![]() In addition to this the race like nature of the story lends itself more to Kikuchi’s insane action scenes and random bits of world building rather than focusing on fleshing out a single area and it’s environs. It’s just that plot itself is as straight forward as can be rather than hinging on things such as the grand, labyrinthine mysteries as with the previous volume. Revelations of the Marcus clan, some tantalizing hints as to the true nature of D’s left hand and more abound. That’s not to say the story is without it’s twists or turns. There’s little mystery to be solved and virtually no webs of intrigue to unravel. If the introduction didn’t make it clear, this is essentially a chase story. The three groups clash as they speed across a wasteland inhabited by rusting robots, flesh eating insects, towns of supernatural threats and more. ![]() D and rival group of hunters known as the Marcus clan find themselves at odds as they both take the same job, retrieve a kidnapped human from her vampiric abductor and return her to her family. The third volume of Hideyuki Kikuchi’s epic series, Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deatchase, gives us what is quite possibly the most well known Vampire Hunter D tale of all thanks to a fantastic anime adaption in the form of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Written by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Art by Yoshitaka Amano, Translated by Kevin Leahy ![]() |