T-Bag, Redemption, and Atonement (Prison Break and Pavement)
This scene with T-Bag is fascinating. T-Bag has been the one character with no redeeming value of his own for the whole life of this series. He's been irredeemably evil. And now all he wants is this normal life of a salesman.
Last week, I read Lin Jensen's Pavement (which I will write about this week as my Dewey Decimal book for November). He writes about Tookie Williams in a chapter called "Atonement." T-Bag's wish for this ordinary life reminded me of Jensen's thoughts about Tookie Williams' execution: "I was taught very early in my Zen training that a bodhisattva never gives up on anyone or anything. I've pursued this teaching until it's inscribed on my heart that no one is to be excluded. Not ever. Not for any reason."
Last week, I read Lin Jensen's Pavement (which I will write about this week as my Dewey Decimal book for November). He writes about Tookie Williams in a chapter called "Atonement." T-Bag's wish for this ordinary life reminded me of Jensen's thoughts about Tookie Williams' execution: "I was taught very early in my Zen training that a bodhisattva never gives up on anyone or anything. I've pursued this teaching until it's inscribed on my heart that no one is to be excluded. Not ever. Not for any reason."