Orange Is The New Black Analysis

On pages 140-141 0f Orange is the New Black, Piper Kerman talks about the difference between someone in her situation and someone who is in prison for a long time, or even for life: Pop tells her, "You've got your little year to do, and I know it seems hard to you, but when you're doing serious time, or life, things look different. You can't put up with shit from anyone, because this is your life, and if you ever take it from anyone, then you're always going to have problems."

Have you ever faced a situation in your life where you were involved in something only short-term, but everyone else was invested with their whole lives? How was the dynamic between people involved different for you because your whole life didn't hinge on what happened?
However, this is one of the major points of the book, Orange is the New Black. Piper is invested in prison life for only a short amount of time, while other people are fully invested in their prison life because it's all they have. Even for some of the people doing shorter stints, because they have been in and out of prison, they pour more of themselves into their prison life. Their prison life becomes a large part of who they are, even on the