the windows are down in the car and the road is open before me

When Prejean took the responsibilities of a spiritual adviser to a convicted murderer, she took on a new role in life. Her peers still supported her, even though her crusade was unorthodox compared to most duties that nuns would have. She still pressed on and became more familiar with the life of a murderer. Sonnier’s condition led her to the transition away from innocence. She found herself giving sympathy to a person who in clergymen’s eyes is considered a beast, or a malicious person against God’s will. She became extremely passionate in her research that would maybe help Pat Sonnier live and to abolish the death penalty. There was also a sense of romanticizing between the two. This made the transition even more evident as she became even more emotionally involved with Sonnier. By doing this, she had overlooked the condition of the parents of the two slain teens. Although she constantly combated her emotions to justify a battle for a killer, in the end she chose to help the condemned instead of the victimized. Sonnier had now introduced her into a corrupt world, and Prejean lost her innocence gaining the human condition. The collaboration of the two worlds seems extremely odd. However, their paths did cross and reconciliation between the two did occur. When this happened, the resulting factor was forgiveness and understanding. These are both characteristics of the human condition, and every human being has a degree of forgiveness and understanding for one another.

This reaction, coming from a nun whom lives in the projects, proves the drastic conditions that she witnessed. It is amazing that she could feel so repulsed by one visit and relieved to retur

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