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The setting is Albany, Georgia, January of 1964. Participating in where the Quebec-Washington-Guantanamo March for Peace with some thirty other protestors, they all were arrested by the police a spent nearly two months in prison. They decided to carry on their use of non violent protest with a very poignant medium - fasting. Extreme to the point of hospitilization once they finally were granted release, Prison Notes accounts for real struggle in the name of fighting for equity. Deming presents the reader with dire stakes by recounting the adamant stamina and drive of her fellow protestors despite the psychical pain they endured for their cause. 

THEMES:

HOPE.

"In this struggle we are unable to measure our hopes literally. So to keep our hope alive we feed om symbols." (pg.95) 

STRUGGLE.

There is a jail within a hail here, hell within hell. The men and women behind these bars are not supposed to exist, but some are supposed to exist even less than others." (pg. 25)