Ray breaks his long-kept silence on the row when he hears another inmate, who we eventually learn is former Klansman Henry Hays, sobbing. Have you ever lied to the ones you love to protect them from your own pain? If yes, how and why and now what?ĥ. He’s so afraid of becoming this person that when his mom and best friend, Lester, come to visit him he lies and reports that everything is fine. After Ray gets sent to death row, he fears becoming the monster the world thinks he is. And you’re going to take the rap.” How does Acker justify this kind of justice? How do you see evidence of this kind of justice still in play today?Ĥ. If you didn’t do it, one of your brothers did. When Ray insists to Lieutenant Acker that he’s got the wrong man, Acker replies, “You know, I don’t care whether you did or didn’t do it. What does his mom do or say to make him feel this way? Who or what did your parents teach you to fear most?ģ. As a boy, Ray admits that he was more afraid of his own mom than the white folks she taught him to fear. What’s one way you’re seeing the tenacity that can come after the terrible?Ģ. The Sun Does Shine is his memoir about that terrible tragedy, yes, but also about what he chose to do after that extraordinary experience. Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and sentenced to death row for crimes he didn’t commit.
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