Robert Louis Stevenson Analysis

In Mr. Stevenson's opening chapter of his book, he is a law student that is assigned to meet with Henry. Within his meeting, he learns how generous and compassionate Henry is and I'm sure is wondering how could this man kill someone. This makes him start thinking what race, poverty, and capital punishment has to do with people being convicted. Mr. Stevenson eventually comes to the conclusion that America tends to condemn the most vulnerable of us. He also concluded that, just because you may be African American you have a higher chance of being incarcerated.

In life, there will always be someone that can jump higher or fun faster, but that also means that there is always someone that is below us. We always want to be better than someone if we admit it or not. Mr. Stevenson concluded that we condemn the most vulnerable of us. He expresses this through the quote "It is how easily we condemn people in this country and the injustice we create when we allow fear, anger, and distance to shape the way we treat the most vulnerable among us. When someone is wrongfully condemned and there is hard evidence that they did not do it that is someone being ignorant and thinking that they are better. I
Stevenson also brought up that because of someones race they have a lower or higher chance of incarceration. Now, we can't control the actions of someone else, but we can control ours and we have the choice to treat everyone equal and majority do not. Mr. Stevenson used the statistics "One in every fifteen people born in the United States in 2001 is expected to go to jail or prison; one in every three black male babies born in this century is expected to be incarcerated." Not only is that one out of three composed of the wrongly convicted but also African American males that have grown up being told that they are not good enough or they are fated to be in jail. Mr. Stevenson concluded that race is a factor when it comes to if they will be convicted or