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Hard Rock Returns To Prison Rape Analysis

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During the poem “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane” by Etheridge Knight, the inmates spoke very highly of all the bad things Hard Rock has done in prison. Hard Rock was known strictly for his violent behavior. When he returned from the hospital to the prison the atmosphere began to change right before the inmates’ eyes. Hard rock was no longer that powerful source that the inmates could depend on. His mind had been instructed to present pleasant behavior. It is clear that the inmates are devastated about what has happened to their hero, Hard Rock. He was the only one that believed in standing up for his and the other inmates dignity and pride. The majority of the inmates believed that “He had been our Destroyer,

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