May Day (Thoughts)

May day is a very short book that has powerful themes behind it. This story starts off with two college friends. One dean who succeeded in life, and is on top. The other is Gordon, who is not doing so well, he is in pretty bad economical and emotion state. One thing to take about this is, how two people of the same class, start of good but one goes of track, while the other gets to enjoy life and do whatever he wants. Dean throughout the book, we see him enjoying life and showing no real signs of worries or stress, when compared to Gordon. Gordon is a character that fell to the bottom by many different problems, and we get to see his constant struggles and inevitably leading to his suicide at the end. Dean the rich of the two, in the end doesn't commit suicide, but he ends of drinking champagne with another character named peter. Both of these guys seem to be enjoying life and seem to be almost ignorant to what is happening all around them. In this book we get to see how the rich are allowed to make mistakes, and aren't the ones to be punish. They are the ones that could wake up drunk and simply be ignorant to the real world around them. Even if it fictional, it does put into perspective today's society and who are the ones allowed to escape the struggles of the economic system or the criminal justice system.

Rich teen didn't serve 20-years in prison, but only 10-years of probation. Money influences the courts decision