Outside Reading Final Blog Post

In the last four chapters of the book Piper is mostly talking about her and other prisoners release from their prison sentences. As time goes on most of her friends have been released or sent to an intensive nine-month drug program. Piper has a hard time adjusting at first without her usual friends but she finds other women she can spend the short time she has left with them. Piper gets a letter from her lawyer telling her that she could potentially be called to testify at a trial in Chicago for someone who was supposedly involved in the drug crimes that she was involved with. Throughout Piper's travels to get to the trial, she ends up traveling from Oklahoma City to Chicago with the woman who had ratted her out, Nora Jansen. What I learned from this book was that the most unexpected people will help you out when times become very hard. When Piper was in prison she didn't expect her fellow prisoners to help her through her sentence and help her learn valuable lessons from her mistakes. She had learned in Danbury that she was a strong woman and that if she could forgive Nora for what she had done Piper would be able to accept responsibility for the path that she put herself on. With Piper's want to forgive Nora, it shows that she has accepted what she had done in her life and that it could help her with closure through the situation. Hopefully I'm never put into a situation like Piper's where I have to find out that unexpected people will help me out the most, but I think that it is a very valuable lesson to know because you do never know what life will put in front of you.