Oscar Rodriguez's Thoughts

The reason I chose my big question was because I wondered the similarities between prison and school. And I came up with many of them.   This is not my only choice I debated between many options and I chose school and prison as my Big Question.

The description of my Big Question is basically summed up as school is a prison for the youth.  The reason why this interest me is because school is basically a prison.  People tell you what to do, you have a schedule to follow, the food isn't that great, and you go to school for most of the year.

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As I read Richard Cory I was trying to figure out the tone and mood of it.  Then I realized that the theme of the story is someone can be the most perfect person on the outside, but inside they are the exact opposite.  In other words it's that you don't judge a book by it's cover.