comparison-contrast


 * 1) "And what's it like to have done something really bad, really evil, something irreparable? I had felt terrible in eight grade when a group of us during a slumber party called up a fat girl and made fun of her... But this is my sensitivity, not Sonnier's. Maybe he doesn't care about the pain he inflicts on others... Maybe violence is natural to him. Maybe he's a brute."
 * 2) Prejean compares her morals to what she is expecting from Sonnier ( she hadn't met him yet.) The idea of purposefully hurting other people is completely beyond her comprehension, as compared to Sonnier who murdered some people.
 * 3) Page 11
 * 4) Genevieve Croyle


 * 1) "It is a common opinion that persons subjected to 2,000 volts of electricity lose consciousness immediately and feel no pain. But Dr. Harold Hillman, director of the Unity Laboratory in applied Neurology, University of Surrey, England, thinks otherwise"
 * 2) She compares the views and beliefs about death by electrocution, using sources and information from doctors who have studied the bodies of victims of electrocution, who mostly say it is not humane.
 * 3) Page 20
 * 4) Patrick Hickman

1. "Then it comes to me. The victims are dead and the killer is alive and I am befriending the killer." 2. She is comparing herself to the killers and the victims. 3. Page 21 4. Sarah Palmer


 * 1) "He is freshly shaven and his black hair is combed into a wave on the front. A handsome face, open, smiling. Not the face I had seen in the photo."
 * 2) Here Sister Helen is talking about her first encounter with Pat Sonnier. She compares what she imagined him to look like with what he actually looked like in person..
 * 3) Page 28
 * 4) Max Stevenson


 * 1) "But i am not meeting him on the streets. I am meeting him in a crucible....normal human encounter."
 * 2) In this quote, she is describing how she might have felt about Pat had she met him under different circumstances. She is comparing meeting someone on the street to meeting someone in jail.
 * 3) Page 31
 * 4) Emily Strand


 * 1) "Eddie keeps receiving disciplinary write-ups, which lands him in the "hole", a stripped-down disciplinary cell with no TV or radio, nothing to read except the Bible, minimal writing materials... Since his arrival on death row three years ago, Pat has never received a disciplinary write-up."
 * 2) This passage uses compare and contrast to show differences between the two Sonnier brothers and juxtaposes the two siblings.
 * 3) Page 32
 * 4) Koko Novak


 * 1) "Pat is inside his cell. A moment, a silence, the snap of a ball, and the two men cheer. They could be two friends in somebody's den on a Saturday afternoon. But then the guard moves back to the end of the tier and assumes his position."
 * 2) Sister Jean is comparing the relationship that Pat has with one of the guards to that of two friends. The contrast is evident in how these two men couldn't be further from friends.
 * 3) p. 75
 * 4) Erin Dugan


 * 1) "Phelps is a 'good, Catholic man.' So the people in Catholic circles of Baton Rouge describe him. And with a master's degree in social work, he is reputed to be one of the more humane, progressive heads of the Louisiana Department of Corrections."...."Yet he supervises executions."
 * 2) In this statement, Prejean compares the description of Phelps as a good man with sound moral beliefs and the cruelty of the death penalty. It emphasizes the hypocrisy of the people's lives outside of the justice system and their positions and roles within it.
 * 3) Page 101
 * 4) Layne Haber


 * 1) "The two were tried in the same courthouse at the same time, on separate floors...Robert got death and Vacearo got life. Both had indigent defenders."
 * 2) Page 119
 * 3) This is a compare/contrast because it shows two different people, Robert and Vacearo. They were both together when they committed the murder and rape. They both were responsible for murder and rape. It shows that they are essentially the same person with the same crime, however the result of their court cases were different. One got life in prison, one got the electric chair.
 * 4) Erica Azad


 * 1) “ Even watchin’ me fry ain’t gonna bring her back, but he won’t let it go”…“But look what these parents are going through, “ I say. “Their daughter raped and stabbed and left to die in the woods. What if someone did that to your mother? What would you want to do to them?” “Kill’em,” he says.
 * 2) In this line Sister Helen is talking to Robert about Mr. Harvey’s desire for Robert’s death, and it contrasts Robert’s hatred of the death penalty with the his protective nature over his own mother. This shows that no one can really understand another’s point of view until they walk a mile in their shoes.
 * 3) P. 147
 * 4) Elisabeth Barrows