Now, this next and last section of this autobiography of John Shea's life, is illustrated first by John's next twelve years being spent in prison. There, in the Fort Dix prison, John experiences many things and meets new people. Such new acquaintances would include a Jamaican man that he got a long with very easily, more like teaming up with him, one of his first friends in prison. Also, John meets another man named Dominic, who really isn't the type of guy who would hurt a fly. Now, other than meeting new people at this prison, John also experiences the things they do, such as playing "futbol" with a bunch of people. Since this is a prison, its not really expected of them to play clean, rather they start to play dirty with each other as soon as the game starts. Finally, after his prison time is over, John is released to the world, and the first thing he does is go home, this also showing a circulation in the plot, where the beginning is close to how this ends. He finds out that he and Penelope can't be together anymore and that Whitey is still out there, or at least was on the run for eleven years. This is the last section of the book, ending the same way it started.
"What?" he says.
"Not all of them were rats."
"You know," he says "that's right, that's right. There was one guy... just got out of prison not long ago. I can't remember his name. One guy stood up and took it. The rest of them - you couldn't shut 'em up."
After reading this last quote to end this book, I realized immediately that John and his friend were talking about how John was the only man out of all of Whitey's gang. At the same time, I found it funny because John wasn't as famous as he is now, which is only because he wrote this book.
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