Post #9

Piper Chapman tells her story from a First-Person point of view in the book Orange is the New Black. With this being a memoir, she distinctively gives her input on it but so do all of the other women that are in jail with her. You would think that jail is an intense place and something that was horrible and dreadful but it doesn’t seem too bad in the book. When she was first admitted into jail she was nervous and didn’t know what to expect but it wasn’t nearly as bad as she thought it would be. It seems like the only think that is keep her nerves going is the fact that life behind bars can change; making her worry about her fiancé. I like how the book is told by Piper because I don’t think it would make sense if it were told by anyone else. It allows you to get to know her and how she feels about the situation but also allows you to get to know everyone else that is in there with her. They all become pretty close and good friends which is surprising when you’re in jail. You would imagine that they all hate each other or there are a lot of fights that go on. There is an occasional brawl between two people but that doesn’t happen too often. I like how you get to visualize what it is like to be in jail but I do feel like it is kind of twisted because it isn’t very scary.