In the podcast of Serial season one I will be focusing on two characters that are Adnan and Jay. The conflict that Adnan is going through is what Jay is saying to jury and judge. And how the Jury ends up siding with Jay even with the lack of evidence they have about the murder of Hae Lee. This conflict affects both my characters by having Adnan sent to prison for life and had Jay walk free but just has to do a little bit of community services hours. Adnan conflict with Jay teaches the reader how difficult it is to know who is telling the truth through the lack of information the detectives gather from Hae Lee murder case. The first reason why Adnan and Jay have a this conflict is because that Adnan is saying he doesn't remember what he did that day because it was just a normal day for him. The cops are not taking his word on his statement. On the other hand Jay is telling cops one story one day and then other story on another day. Trainum who got interviewed for this podcast says “The inconsistencies in Jay’s statements that the cops are catching him in, Trainum says, cops are used to that (Trainum 8)”. In other words, Trainum believes that the cops see and acknowledges the inconsistencies in Jay statements about what happened that day but they just feel that it's normal and …show more content…
that he is not lying he is just messing up a little. Adnan never has a break like Jay gets or any help. Another reason Adnan and Jay are having to deal with this because Adnan didn't have any help to find and get a lawyer like Jay.
Adnan needed the help of his family to find one. Gutierrez states and says this when talking to Jay on the stand and tells her that Mr. Urick help him find a lawyer “Mr. Urick?! The prosecutor in this case helped provide you a lawyer (Gutierrez 10) “?! Gutierrez recognize that Mr. Urick the prosecutor help provide Jay with a lawyer which this is not right and should never happen. Gutierrez felt that this evidence would be good enough to the point where people would be able to see that Jay may be getting help from this case from everyone which is not
fair. The finally reason why Adnan and Jay have to deal with this conflict is because there is not enough evidence to know who the jury and judge should send to jail. Sarah Koenig the interview for this podcast feels that the jury should have never been able to find someone guilty in this case. “If you ask me to swear Adnan Syed is innocent, I couldn’t do it (Koenig 12)”. After doing this podcast for over a year now Sarah Koenig reminds us that even though most of the times that she feels that Adnan is innocent she can’t say he is because they still don’t have any answers to this case even with it happening fifteen years ago. In conclusion, the conflict with Adnan and what Jay is saying that happen that day to the jury and judge has Adnan goes to prison for life. Adnan feels he should have never been questioned that he could of had done this but over the fifteen years in prison he knows he is innocent and now one will truefully know that because nobody can be inside is mind. Adnan shows that it is difficult to know who is telling the truth especially when you are innocent and don’t have much information.
This reason makes sense because Asia and even a friend of hers claim that they saw and even spoke to Adnan that day and at that time Hae was murdered. This part of the story is when Asia found out Adna was arrested so she wrote him a letter explaining what she remembered about seeing him that day and time. This is from the letter “Im not sure if you remember talking to me in the library january 13’th,but I remember”. This means Adnan is innocent because he was not murdering Hae at the time he was at the library. Therefore Adnan is innocent because Asia’s letters prove that he was at the library at the time Hae was
In Episode 8 of Sarah Koenig’s podcast, Serial, Koenig claims that Jay isn’t a reliable enough source of information for the state to find Adnan guilty of the murder. She argues that there are too many inconsistencies in the story that he has told police over and over, and that there are too many problems in the story that the police use against Adnan.
Before going to Alaska, Chris McCandless had failed to communicate with his family while on his journey; I believe this was Chris’s biggest mistake. Chris spent time with people in different parts of the nation while hitchhiking, most of them whom figured out that McCandless kept a part of him “hidden”. In chapter three, it was stated that Chris stayed with a man named Wayne Westerberg in South Dakota. Although Westerberg was not seen too often throughout the story, nevertheless he was an important character. Introducing himself as Alex, McCandless was in Westerberg’s company for quite some time: sometimes for a few days, other times for several weeks. Westerberg first realized the truth about Chris when he discovered his tax papers, which stated that “McCandless’s real name was Chris, not Alex.” Wayne further on claims that it was obvious that “something wasn’t right between him and his family” (Krakauer 18). Further in the book, Westerberg concluded with the fact that Chris had not spoken to his family “for all that time, treating them like dirt” (Krakauer 64). Westerberg concluded with the fact that during the time he spent with Chris, McCandless neither mentioned his
A character that was admirable in the novel “we all fall down” is John. John is the father of Will who is the main character, they spend nearly the entire story together looking for a way out of the world trade center during the 9/11 attacks. During the story you learn that John is very smart, brave, and respected. These are all characteristics which play a crucial role in saving lives such as his co-workers and a random lady they find on the way named ting, but mainly in the ending John and Will successfully escape.
But, unlike Adan, Jay got off free of charge. Why is that? At the beginning he did not cooperate with the police. He was a drug dealer at the time and seeing as it was the 90s the drug laws were incredibly harsh. Perhaps, that's how he worked a deal out for himself. But lets face it, behind closed doors one will never know what truly happened. Our law is corrupt and twisted and so are the people protecting us. When Jay decided to work with the police there are documents missing of him being questioned by two detectives. We know that Jay spent more than a couple hours speaking to the detectives during this mysterious session, we also know that their session was never documented--meaning we have no utter clue what was truly being said behind those doors. Is that when jay worked a deal and pulled
Sarah Koenig’s riveting 2014 podcast series Serial investigates the muddled case of Adnan Syed, a teenager who was accused and convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Han Min Lee, fifteen years ago. In order to do so she must speak to those whom were close to Adnan and involved in his day to day life. However, this yields a problem because whoever was close to him wanted to believe he was innocent but their intimacy may have tainted their statements about his character. When Koenig interviews Saad and Rabia, Adnan’s best friend and his older sister, they obviously take the viewpoint that he is innocent; however, through their curious phrasings and tendency to oversell his eminence, their doubt
based on the story of one witness, Adnan’s friend Jay, who testified that he helped
First of all, if something monumental happens a person remembers the day it happened. In contrast, Adnan didn’t remember January 13. Yet, Jay remembers close to everything which points an arrow in his direction. However, Adnan says he didn’t ask Hae for a ride, but witnesses say he did. We can point that at Adnan for lying, but he may have failed
This was something that honestly suited Adnan’s defense more than Jay’s. Remember when I said “He didn’t seem like some sort of assasinator?” Well, he really wasn’t. Why would he kill Hae anyway? Hae and Adnan had dated for about two years, but during the end, it’s like most high school relationships. Someone in the group, or both members, eventually lost interest and break up, which in this case, Hae was the one who broke up. She fell in love with another person, named Don. When they had a break up, Adnan was emotional, and upset. Now, that would make sense, but that was two months before Hae’s death. Why would Adnan kill Hae 2 months after they broke up? I mean, he was described as a player, and sometimes he’d cheat on her. Even after they broke up, many friends his said Adnan eventually got over it.
In Serial, a podcast where Sarah Koenig investigates the murder of Hae Min Lee, there are many ambiguities surrounding Jay, his image, and story. The facts about Jay are unclear. The major ambiguities in Jay’s story give significance to the minor ambiguities. A major ambiguity - Jay confesses as an accomplice in crime. Furthermore, Jay lists all the actions he takes to aid Adnan. Another major ambiguity - Jay paints Adnan as cruel and bloodthirsty, even though nobody else paints Adnan as cruel or bloodthirsty. The following minor ambiguities can be resolved if we ignore the big picture. A minor ambiguity - Jay does not phone the police to report the planned murder; upon notification, the police might have been able to prevent the planned murder.
In this podcast Sarah explores and digs deep into the two options, is Adnan guilty? Or is Adnan innocent of his past? Adnan Syed should stay in jail and not be released from prison due to some main reasons that lean towards Adnan’s guilt. It didn’t seem like a healthy relationship should look like.
Morris opens the film by juxtaposing the narratives by the participants in the interviews in order to show Adams’ innocent and Harris’ guilt. The beginning of the film introduces two people that one was believably wrongly convicted and the other was suspiciously a real murderer. Adams who was criminally convicted is interviewed with a white shirt. He narrates his life all the way from Ohio to end up getting a job in Dallas. By showing Adams on the white shirt, Morris tells us Adams’ innocence and proposes our...
Throughout the article Nielson and Kubrin remain objective and not formally leaning in favor of Mr. Skinner or the courts decisions. This goes to show that the authors were maintaining a professional standpoint which boosted their credibility in this text. The authors use ethos throughout the article in order to make his statement clear that ethically one should not consider rap lyrics as evidence. They give examples such as “Nobody believes that Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno or that Bret Easton Ellis carried out the gory murders described in “American Psycho”; neither artist claimed that he was writing autobiographically,” the same applied to Mr.Skinner. Nielson and Kubrin also addressed the manner in which providing the jury with the rap lyrics is not ethically right because it allows there to be a bias against the
I felt that as Garrow’s attorney, Armani should have declined to meet with Mr. Petz. Though taking the meeting would be a kind gesture, it would add additional pressure to Armani and could only cause more distress for Mr. Petz. In her article, “Lake Pleasant bodies case” (2008), Lisa Adamson shared that Frank Armani casually knew the parents of Alicia Hauck and Susan Petz from the community. Again, imagine the added pressure for Armani in deciding between his obligations to Garrow versus his obligations to the community. According to the article, Armani did not answer Mr. Petz questions but meet with Mr. Petz.
Most people, throughout history, have always been quick to judge others and their actions. Author John Milton is no different. In his books of Paradise Lost Milton finds faults in Eve’s actions and blames her for the fall of mankind. He points out specific flaws in her character. Flaws like chosen ignorance, pride, and vanity. They way Milton makes these points in Paradise Lost almost encourages readers to believe that all women possessed these character flaws and are there for the cause of most problems for men.