IRP Post 3 - Cited Passage

"By the time Linda had drove me to the airport she had long since seen through my prevarications. She sensed the true dimensions of my desire, and it scared her. "If you get killed," she argued with a mix of dispair and anger, "it's not just you who will pay the price. I'll have to pay, too, you know, for the rest of my life. Doesn't that matter to you?""

"I'm not going to get killed," I answered. "Don't be melodramatic."" (110)

I chose this quote because it shows how much of a toll a risky life can have on other people. You never really think of the effect that actions will have on other people and how everything you do is greater that just you. I think that is an important theme in this section because he puts just not himself but his family at risk also. This is also a good connection point because I the family of someone who got arrested for robbing a liquor store and basically the family has suffered even though it is only the one person that is in jail. There was a news story about it and it was in all of the local newspapers so their family was questioned and ridiculed all because of something that is totally out of their control.