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MattBurkeFirstEssay 11 - 16 Apr 2015 - Main.MattBurke
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| | | First, old memories visit the law student. With his mother at her office, he’s bored. A man offers to shake his hand. They shake. After, the man offers the law student a piece of candy. The law student’s mother explains: “He’s a partner.” This is the law student’s earliest memory of that word. When the law student hears the word again—this time in its general usage—he experiences the disorientation common to learning children: “Partner” means “man with authority and a distant affect.” How can it also mean “companion”? | |
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< | Second, before the law student began practicing law studentry, he was a teacher. He taught high school history. His curriculum contained a lesson about a Supreme Court case that he would later read for “ConLaw,” Brown v. Board. After explaining to his students things they already knew, he would ask a question in reference to another thing they already knew. He would ask: “Why, at this school, are the only white people teachers?” | >
> | Second, before the law student began practicing law studentry, he was a teacher. He taught high school history. His curriculum contained a lesson about a Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board, which he later read for “ConLaw.” After explaining to his students things they already knew, he would ask a question whose answer was already known. He would ask: “Why, at this school, are the only white people teachers?” | | | Third, the student recalls a trial, the boy who shot up the student’s high school. The student remembers his parents’ divorce proceedings and his great-grandmother’s will—the two silver bars devised to the student’s mother when the student was four years old. Those, he thinks, are not the law. They are alternating weekends, silver bars, and an incarcerated boy, who, many years ago, was my friend, and who, when last I saw him, wore an orange jumpsuit, now an incarcerated man. |
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