Jack Henry Abbott's book, In The Belly Of The Beast is as autobiographical account of the author's lifelong experiences in penal institutions while serving time for numerous petty crimes as a child to murder in later years. He offers a wide array of attacks on various American institutions in society while trying to defend his position as "victim" of society's pitfalls. The self-educated author encapsulates the reader by presenting stories, through letters, of the horrific reality of prison life. Although considered psychopathic, his rendition lends an enormous amount of insight and allows us to feel a need to reform a prison system that may not deserve the name of "correctional facility." The book offers everything from tormenting accounts of his time in "the Hole" to fo

In a time when crime literature was surging, it is somewhat difficult to determine the author's initial intent to engage his readers in somewhat of a "public awareness" notice. After all, his life of crime began while a teen and his adult rendition of a perfect knife stabbing does not lend acceptance to being seen as an American outlaw saint. Originally a protege of Norman Mailer, Abbott's letters were seen as being written by the elite of the prison population with an intellectual vision of a diseased society. He gives the reader an analysis how prison is designed to gut and corrupt the timid, and break or brutalized the weak. Abbott makes claim that his loss of constitutional rights in a society unjust led him to surrender to an unspoken prison constitution for the rest of his life.

undations of political philosophies of Kant and Marx.

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Approximate Word count = 576
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)