BP 4 (Late upload due to tech issues)

A penal colony is an area where those who are exiled or who are prisoners are sent as a punishment to be away from regular life away from the general population. The “apparatus” in this story is a machine that not only forces its victims to suffer but it also informs prisoners of their sentence after being brought to justice. With the place that the characters are in being so hot, it’s suggested that the place is chaotic and very busy. Many of the things included in the story such as the “Teahouse” and “cane chair” may be a symbolization of the colonizers having power over everything going on in the settlement. The officer actually feels for those being executed and tortured. If the apparatus sentences you, you must take that punishment just the same as if a colonizer were to punish you, you’d have to take that punishment. The officer throws himself onto the apparatus because that’s the only way he’d forgive himself for allowing such horrible things to happen to the prisoners who suffered the same fate. Some examples of people not having due process would be people sentenced to the death penalty for a crime they didn’t do. In my opinion the only reason a person wouldn’t face due process would either be that all of the evidence basically exposed itself or whoever was doing the sentence had a type of hatred for the person.