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Setting:

This story is setting in Thomaston Penitentiary prison, were the main character, John Caine and Strazinski (the tower pig) are having a bad relationship.

Caine does not like the employees at Thomaston Penitentiary; actuarially stands in the text that he had had nothing to do, but hating Strazinski, when he was in the hole. It is a tough environment where nobody shows their feelings. When Caine is talking with Captain Kruller about Caine grandmothers dead, he does not want to show that he is weak vulnerable, therefore he hides his feelings.

One of the things that the writer is trying to tell us in the story is this tough environment which flourishes in the American prisons. From that statement you can conclude that the story can be contemporary. It is not important for the text, or for the understanding of the text that it could be contemporary. 

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Characterizations:

 John Caine has been in prison for eight years, five months and eleven days. That is a long time and it has affected his behavior in the prison. An example would be that he always plays dumb, because he knows that it makes the jailers nuts (p 2 line 54-55). This example shows that Caine does not care about the consequences he gets disobeying an order, because whatever punishment he gets he is still going to be in the prison. The jailers are jacking him very hard and that is the reason why I think he is ...

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