2.07 DBA Free Choice Blog

Camilo Restrepo   February 7

The section of the story I read, “The Bet,” was about how a lawyer was tempted into a bet with a rich banker that he could not last fifteen years imprisoned. The lawyer accepted the challenge and was kept in the banker’s garden. He was allowed to have a musical instrument and books, and was allowed to write letters, to drink wine, and to smoke. The lawyer was to be freed on November 14^th, 1885 at 12 o’clock. The first year was very hard for the lawyer, he suffered depression and loneliness. After the tenth year the lawyer sat motionless on the table and read nothing but the gospel. The last two years of his imprisonment the prisoner read a variety amount of books. One day before the full fifteen years have passed the banker knew that if the lawyer one this bet, he would go bankrupt and loose everything. The banker’s only way of not going bankrupt would be killing the lawyer. The prisoner gave a letter to the banker saying, he renounces the two million dollars and will leave five hours before the scheduled time of his release.

          My reaction to this story was shocking because after fifteen years of his life he still decides to leave five hours early and not take the two million dollars that got him into that mess.

          The style of notes I would use for this story would be list because there are many important events in this story that really get pointed out.