Outside Reading Blog #2

In chapters 5-7, Piper talked a lot about the friendships she was making and how important they were to her. She created strong relationships with the people in Room 6, the first room she lived in, and the people she lives with now in Dorm B. I really admired the way that she is able to gain trust with a lot of different women even though she moved to a different area of the prison. She had strengthened relationships with people she never thought she would be friends with. In particular with another inmate named Pop. She was always so tough on the outside and after a negative run-in with Pop in a previous chapter, Piper wanted to avoid her. After a mutual friend was leaving for a drug program, Piper took the chance at becoming closer with Pop and she didn't look back. It was inspiring to me how Piper could push past the negative interaction before and become friends with Pop, because becoming friends with other women in prison doesn't seem like an easy thing to do. The other thing that was amazing to me was how each prisoner supported each other when they were down, even if they weren't friends. The last chapter that I read was about how everything involving the visiting hours worked. There were different emotions from the prisoners that everyone was able to read and everyone was there for the person that was upset. It made me really happy to see that in a place where nothing was going right for anyone, they were always able to support each other through the good and bad times.