1. After pages 3-4

    "This is not a movie about bars and locked doors. It is about being alone when you are not really alone and about being scared all the time." (Pages 3-4)

-these are words coming from a scared young 16 year old boy who cant believe what is happing to him. 

2. On page 19

"I didn't say it was bad, but wasn't it predictable? You need to predict without predicting. You know what I men? When you make a film, you leave an impression on the viewers who serve as a kind of jury for your film. If you make your film predictable, they'll make up their minds about it long before it's over."

-things can be predictable as long as something makes it unpredictable in the end

3. On page 21

    "Most people in our communities are decent, hardworking citizens who pursue their own interests legally and without infringing on the rights of others. But there are also monsters in our communities--people who are willing to steal and to kill, people who disregard the rights of others."

-I think that the communities are the monsters, they didn't give the monsters much of a chose of what to.  if they can't get a job then they have no money, no money means no house.

4.  on page 26

    "...the laws also protect the accused, and that is the wonder and beauty of the American system of justice. ...We apply the law equally to both sides. The law that protects society all of society.

-that is what most think it is like but in the real world it's not like that

5. On page 46

    "I hate this place. I hate this place. I can't writ it enough times to make it look the way I feel. I hate, hate, hate this place!!

-any person would hate prison. the only way you know how bad it is,  if you went to prison.

6.on page 59

    "It's funny, but when I'm sitting in the courtroom, I don't feel like I'm involved in the case. It's like the lawyers and the judge and everybody are doing a job that involves me, but I don't have a role. It's only when I go back to the cells that I know I'm involved."

 -he doesn't realize how munch treble he is until he gets to his cell.  

7. On page 78-79

    "Half of those jurors, no matter what they said when we questioned them when we picked the jury, believed you were guilty the moment they laid eyes on you. You're young, you're Black, and you're on trial. What else do they need to know?"

- I think he is just looking for a reason why he is there but the real reason is he mad a mistake.   

8. On page 89

    " 'All they can do is put me in jail,' he said. 'They can't touch my soul.' "

 -when they take your name away he will fell soulless. then he will be no different from the rest.

9. On page 91

    "I think about myself so much, about what's going to happen to me and all, that I don't think about my folks that much. I know Mama loves me, but I wonder what she's thinking."

- these are the thoughts of a scared kid so scared he cant think of what is really going on. 

10. On pages 115-116

    "Seeing my dad cry like that was just so terrible. What was going on between us, me being his son and him being my dad, is pushed down and something else is moving up in its place. It's like a man looking down to see his son and seeing a monster instead."

-he feels like he is a big mistake but his dad is just scared for his son

11. On page 140

    "What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt. . . Sunset said he committed the crime, Isn't that what being guilty is all about? You actually do something?"

-you can lie to the police but when they find out you did you'll get in more trouble then in the bingeing 

12. On page 237

    " His film footage shows me what he's seeing and, to a large extent, what he's thinking. And what he sees, the humanity of it, speaks of a very deep character...

-he is being himself and onto just acting like something he is not

13. on page 261

"They are all equally guilty. The one who grabbed the cigarettes, the one who wrestled for the gun, the one who checked the place to see if the coast was clear."

-the kid who was trying to act like a man need to start being a man say he did it