Fish (124-187)

Summary
          I am so disappointed. Timmy is going to his sentencing, to finally know the amount of years he will be receiving. That may sound like a good thing but the at just means he will have to go through Quarantine all over again. He has to go into a whole new area ( like in the beginning of the memoir ), where he needs to make sure he is not found out for being gay. Without a man this is a very dangerous situation, because now he is fair game. It seems that that is the reason I am disappointed but the real reason is because not only is he leaving Riverside, but he is leaving Slide Step. Slide Step is such a nice guy who had real feelings for and if one were to take away the prison setting and the anally raped part, they could have truly made a nice couple. I wish they lasted because now I can't guess what is going to happen in the story, how about you?
          This time Quarantine did not seem as bad as it was in the beginning of the book. He met a new friend named Nate that helped him get his stolen cigarettes back. Apparently (as they like to say) "Nate runs that bitch" (Parsell 161). He had a whole gang that could defend that fact for him. Timmy did not know that he was going to stay in Quarantine. Since he was expecting only two and a half months he went to meet his probation officer. It seemed like a great thing. Maybe he was getting released EARLY? NO. During his actual trial The judge gave Timmy four and a half years, almost double what he was supposed to his original time ( even having plead guilty ). All because what that probationer officer had wrote about what Timmy said.
          It wasn't like Timmy was trying to be rude he was just trying to protect his ass, just like he has since entering the system. If you can believe it, the probation officer was hitting on Timmy. That fat sweaty man thought he had a chance. I guess the officer felt offended when Timmy immediately stood and said, "I'm not fucking gay" (Parsell 176). It was a stupid thing to do because that man was going to determine his future. Since his crime was armed robbery the sentence was usually fifteen to life in prison. 


Quote
          "You have to tell me who, if you want to be moved" (Parsell 187).


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          This is a chapter in the book called compromise, and a compromise is what Timmy has to do to keep his ass safe in Quarantine. I almost forgot to tell you that Timmy was sadly raped in his cell by his new friend Nate, and had to give face to Nate's friend Load Mouth. So he told the officers, compromising his life. Everyone in prison knows if you snitch you get killed. I was happy the Timmy had the courage to speak out but that is what landed him bunking with the transsexuals.