{"id":420,"date":"2021-08-27T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/?p=420"},"modified":"2022-07-08T11:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T02:31:36","slug":"el%e6%9c%ac%e6%a3%9a%e7%b4%b9%e4%bb%8b4-criminal-lawless-by-ed-brubaker-and-sean-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/420\/","title":{"rendered":"EL\u672c\u68da\u7d39\u4ecb(4) Criminal: Lawless, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<180 words) introductions\/reviews of books in the EL library. They focus on telling you what we think will be interesting for you, a college student and English learner, so use them to help you find the right book for you. You can also use the <\/em>tags<em> to find books about topics you might be interested in.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p><em>Lawless<\/em> is the story of Tracy Lawless and his family. When Tracy is released from the army after committing war crimes in Iraq, he discovers that his brother has been murdered and he makes it his mission to discover who the killer is. He uses a fake identity to join his brother\u2019s old gang and help them plan a robbery&#8230;and then he discovers the truth.<\/p>\n<p>This book is much uglier and crueler than <em>Coward<\/em>, and it contains more emotionally difficult themes. Tracy\u2019s father was abusive, his brother is corrupted by his environment, and Tracy himself is controlled by both the military and the criminal world. There is a scene where Tracy tortures and old man for information and another where soldiers tell a racist and homophobic story. Be warned before reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My two cents:<\/strong> While much of <em>Lawless<\/em> may be uncomfortable to read, Brubaker and Phillips again tell a difficult story about family. Not as good as <em>Coward<\/em>, but still a good read.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1565\" src=\"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/criminallawless-196x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/criminallawless-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/criminallawless.png 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17,22,9,18],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-el-book-introductions","tag-blood-violence","tag-nudity-sex","tag-comic-book","tag-crime","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}