Day 3: George- Megan Schaus

Under the orange jumpsuit of an inmate, there is an individual. An individual with feelings, emotions, distractions, and personal conflicts. When you look at a person you have no idea what could be going on in their head. In True Notebooks children we meet have committed crimes and now are paying for them. From having a life to residing in a jail cell. What blocked the children from looking at the clouds, were their own lives. The emptyness and lonliness that was there to greet them every morning led them down this road. Lives were destroyed at young ages. They developed behaviors that unfortunatley led them to hurt. They took advantage of everything good in life, and now they have nothing. If I were to take a look back to my struggles I would look at the sky. There are good days, when they sky is blue, and there are bad days, when it storms. So far, this novel is teaching me to appreciate the little things in life, because they aren't always going to be there for us to enjoy. It is teaching me that everything can change in a second, and everything I have now can be gone. I give the children in the correctional facility complete and total respect. Even though they made mistakes, doesn't mean the blame is completely on them. I have sympathy for them considering they most likely never had someone to teach them right from wrong. They never had a reliable role model to look after. They went through life alone.