Strength Through The Struggle

The Face of Incarceration The movie Trading Places is a comedy that stars Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd as a homeless man and a wealthy cultured man respectively. Being a comedy there are multiple instances for laughing, however, it was thought-provoking for me the first time I saw it. The two men are unwittingly transposed into each other’s lives. They in turn start to make different types of decisions that reinforce their new circumstances. The poor man who is now in a wealthy lifestyle grew in self-respect and higher expectations of himself. The wealthy man who found all his resources taken away turned to anger and feeling sorry for himself and indulging in petty crime. Was it Nature, their personality or Nurture, their surroundings. I interviewed a man last week, Quan Huynh (pronounced-Hhhhwen). Quan experienced a pivotal event in his life at the age of 13. A painful event. The hurt and the resulting anger from it stayed with him. And over time it grew into rage and violence. It climaxed in a violent night