Analyse how a writer influenced you to think about a situation or event in the written text.
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane is a poem by Knight, Etheridge. This poem is about a black African American man that has returned from hospital back to prison after having a lobotomy. Hard Rock is tough man that doesn’t bow down to anyone, he controls the prison and does all the bad things in it. The guards in the prison make Hard Rock get a lobotomy as the guards think Hard Rock is really bad guy that controls everyone.
Para 1
Firstly the writer influenced me to think about how hard was before his lobotomy which is the event. I thought when I first heard about hard rock he was a violent man that didn’t listen to the guards and controlled the prisoners. He was “known as not to take shit from nobody and he had the scars to prove it” this quote is a double negative because it explains hard rock at what he was known to do bad things and control people. This implies to me as someone that is a bad person and doesn’t listen to people. The writer has make me think that hard rock is a bad person and is a violent man that hurts people.
Para 2
Furthermore the writer has influenced me to think how hard Rock was during the lobotomy. So far we see hard Rock as a violent man that does his own thing and is the boss of the prisoners, when he is made to get lobotomy. The doctors had “bored a hole in his head, cut out part of his brain and shot electricity through the rest”. This quote is listing and also the words bored, cut and shot are all aggressive verbs. The doctors that did this to him are wrong as doctors are supposed to help you not hurt you. This makes me think how hard rock had to get part of his brain taken out which makes me feel bad for him.
Para 3
Lastly the writer has influenced me to think how hard rock was after his lobotomy. Hard rock has put been put through hell with his lobotomy and now we see how it has affected him. Hard Rock was completely changed after it, it took exactly three minutes to say his name, this is not normal for anyone as mostly everyone knows how to say their name. This quote is a statistics as it involves numbers and says the number three which there are numbers involve. This has influenced me to think how how hard rock was actually treated and how this lobotomy effected him.
Conclusion
To conclude, Hard Rock went through a terrible event which was the lobotomy, this completely changed the way Hard Rock was looked at and how he was treated as now the guards have control over the prison again but know the rest of the prisoners don’t look up to Hard Rock as “he used to be their ruler the doer of things we couldn’t do ourselves” this completely changes the way the prison is run now since there won’t be the bad fights happening around the prison since Hard rock is not normal he was the one that would start all these fights or join in them.
