Serial And The Trail Summary

Characters play a major role in ensuring that the novels can be read and comprehended. However, the success of a novel is dependent on the quality of characterization and whether they will attract the

Jay changed his information the second time he was interviewed. The first time he said that he helped Adnan dig the hole to put Hae in, he said that they dug the hole about 6 inches deep, but by the second time around

Initially, Jay said he didn’t know anything. Only that Adnan Syed said he was going to kill his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee for breaking up with him. And so, first, he changed saying he did help bury her, but that’s about it. Some consistencies in Jays story was that Hae’s body was buried in Leakin Park, although the time for the burial doesn’t ever seem to match up any other time, he does

me to the first part of my theory. This is at the heart of things for me: Jay is a fabulous liar.

What are these wrongdoings you ask? Kang claims that Serial is not so much about the cold case it is investigating, but more so the producer and narrator, Sarah Koenig’s, fixation on the case. He also believes that while Koenig may be well intentioned, she is interpreting and making assumptions on facts of the lives of people within minority communities involved with the case. Another writer, Yang asserts that This American Life’s method of narrative journalism displays “cultural clumsiness” (Yang qtd. Friedersdorf). Friedersdorf argues that these allegations

Another thing I can say is that Jay was determined when Jay gave his thoughts on the Philippines drug war and that he is going through a lot of trouble to learn more about it. And to sum it all up, all those quotes go right back into the fact that Jay is a determined young man. Mainly during the end of the novel, Jay has experienced a lot of acceptance towards the effect of his cousin's death. jay he uses his thoughts and speech to write a letter jun to show that he has accepted the fact that he is gone and he is reminiscing juns death in thought form, and when jay wrote “Wherever you are know that i will try my best to make the people in my life feel how you made me feel that day eight years ago”(Ribay 300). In this quote, Jay uses his thoughts that after Jun's death, Jay is going to honor his life every bit of the way Jay thinks, making everyone else as happy as Jun was.

The criminal justice system is meant to protect the innocent, and punish those who are guilty of a crime. However, no system is perfect, and as a result, sometimes the innocent become victims of the system that was meant to protect them. How exactly do these innocent people become victims of the system? Sometimes the person gets framed, and the crime scene is staged to point a finger at them. Sometimes, there is no strong physical evidence against them, yet circumstantial evidence is used by the crown to put them away. This happened to a 17 year old boy named Adnan Syed in Baltimore, Maryland, who was imprisoned for life, for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Lee. Throughout the Serial podcast, Sarah Koenig is able to critically analyze information which proves Adnan’s innocence. Firstly, Asia’s letters gave Adnan an alibi for the time of the murder. Secondly, Adnan’s innocence can be demonstrated through the lack of any strong evidence and the prosecution’s use of circumstantial evidence which can be disproved. Thirdly, Jay’s constantly changing testimony is not credible evidence of Adnan’s guilt, making him innocent.

Another thing that puzzled me in this case was why Adnan would ask Jay to help him hide Hae’s body if they weren’t close friends. Why would Adnan trust Jay with something this serious? If Adnan thought out Hae’s murder as carefully as Jay says he did, why would he be careless with who he told? Jay seems to think that he and Adnan were best buddies, but Adnan and other people who knew them say

While Adnan’s lawyer was asking jay how did he know where Hae car was. He responded with I knew where the car was I thought it will help the police. And Adnan’s lawyer said, “everything you said to the police everything is true”. After the lawyer finished Jay said, “Everything I said wasn’t true, but I knew where the car was located”. First of all, why did Jay change his answer. In Adnan’s story Rabia (she was in the room when it happens/the author of the book) Rabia described Jay was nervous when he was on the stage. And after he left the stage, he was acting weird after jay left the stage it was more like he wasn’t him but after a while he was acting normal. So first and overall why did Jay get nerves while he’s on the stage, he just going to tell the truth and why would he change what he said and why did he have lied to the police. Because Adnan’s Lawyer asked him (Jay) about how did he (Jay) know where Hae car was located. And overall why did he change his answer and lie to the

The main reason why Adnan was in the center of this investigation was because his best friend, Jay,

The story is like a gem, amber, that must continually be shined and polished to show off its luster in the right light. The way it is polished depends on the way the story will be

O’Brien also shared another quality that a good story is striking and dramatic. He informs readers that “even if one’s goal is to depict ordinary human beings in ordinary human settings, a story must find striking, dramatic, and unexpected ways to accomplish

As the storylines unfold there are visible signs of biases as well as prejudices that are held against the men accused of murder.

When telling the story of a crime, often times the victims are erased or looked over. For the most part, killers and criminals have their personalities and general lives shown in explicit detail [4]. This detailed look into the killers past looks over the victim and, completely erases them. With victim oversight in mind, often times the true crime genre operates without consent of the people at the center of these tragedies. Amanda Knox felt exploited and suffered tremendously after her story was thrust into the public eye [2].

The Serial podcast, hosted by Sarah Koenig, is about the murder of young Woodlawn High School student Hae Min Lee. Hae was a smart, ambitious, and outgoing young lady taken from this world too soon. Sarah Koenig and the podcast takes us through the ins and outs of typical and unusual teenager behavior to try and uncover something unseen in this case. Adnan Syed, the now convicted murder, and Jay Wilds, the state’s only witness, are the key people of this story. I believe Adnan’s innocence should be maintained because Jay’s story should not have been used for evidence, there was not enough evidence to even arrest Adnan, and Adnan had a trustworthy alibi.