`` 57 `` By Rachel Kushner - 914 Words

â€Å"57† is a short story by journalist Rachel Kushner which was first published in the New Yorker. It is a remarkable story and a powerful piece of social realism. Many people were impressed with her level of engagement with this world. She’s visited maximum security prisons and has personal relationships with people serving life sentences. Kushner is very dedicated to her craft and many times dives deep into her work. The story is about a man who goes nameless through the whole story, it starts when the nameless man is first released from jail with only the clothes on his back and five dollars to his name. He then uses his last five dollars to buy a soda and a knife he mentions is for protection but soon uses it to attempt rob a woman.The author using symbolism very heavily to explain a deeper meaning, which is that a person should never let the way they grow up affect the person they become in the future. The story 57 is very complex, it starts off with a man who most believe is kept nameless for a reason. The reason being that the author wanted the readers to understand that the man’s story is like many other men in the world. Another man trapped in the Pre-K to prison pipeline, the way the author’s described the nameless man’s life he was destined to fail. The author spent months undercover in a prison, researching the effects on different people in prison. The nameless man is just like the men she researched. The nameless man never had a proper parent , he was forced to