Orange is the New Black



Orange is the New Black

Introduction

“Orange is the New Black” is the account of most important part of the life of an American woman, Piper Kerman who spent about a year in prison, and shared her experiences through this excellent memoir. Kerman belonged to a well educated family and she was also a graduate, when she involved in relationship with a woman Nora Jansen. Nora was involved in drug trafficking and other such illegal activities, with Nora, Kerman also involved in drug trafficking and other such illegal activities. Kerman was caught during her attempt of money laundering and drug trafficking. She was sentenced for 15 months imprisonment in the Danbury, Connecticut (www.npr.org). In her memoir “Orange is the New Black”, Kerman shared her experiences about the troubles and sufferings of jail, but along with it, she also shared a secret that process of learning can never stop. A person learn from his or her experiences that makes an individual a better person , no matter what were the conditions and consequences, process of learning continues.

Thesis Statement

Life continues to grow of confinement; even prison experiences did not stop Piper Kerman from learning, these experiences changed her life and made her understand realities of life, relations, and worth of freedom.

Discussion

Kerman learned a lot from her experiences in jail, she was open to every opportunity she had in prison to learn. Either intentionally or unintentionally, she kept learning things that she did not know. She did not consider what the thing is, either small or big her lessons were continuous, from cleaning to fixture, she was experiencing and learning. Prison served her a practical environment where she came to learn doing many things that she never thought in her life, “how to clean house using maxipads, how to wire a light fixture…I even mastered a recipe from the prison's culinary canon: cheesecake." (Kerman, 2013, p.150). Prison provided her an opportunity to meet people from different backgrounds, cultures, traditions, and with different languages. She learned different languages, “when to curse someone in Spanish, knowing the difference between " feeling" it" (good) and " feelin' some kinda way " (bad)” (Kerman, 2013, p.150). Time spent in prison allows her experience of learning behavior and attitudes of people, how to deal with different people and how to know nature of other people, “how to discern whether a duo were best friends or girlfriends, … calculate someone's good time, how to spot a commissary…how to tell which guards were players and which guards were noth-in' nice.” (Kerman, 2013, p.150). Kerman learned about different prisoners the unhappy women, teenagers, people from different race religion and color, she learned about humanity and how people suffer, she learned about government regulations and reasons behind more crimes and why people are in jails (Thomas, 2012).

Prison was the place, where she was provided an experience of learning, either by force or obligation they had no choice but to learn, she was forced to learn numbers ...