Analysis Of A Naked Singularity By Sergio De La Pava

A young black man wakes up one morning. He stares at his reflection in the mirror of his confinement. He is in a small cell with only a bed, toilet, sink, mirror and his thoughts. He thinks back to when an officer stopped him on the street three months back, and the hazy process in which he was somehow convicted for a “crime” with barely any evidence. This realization is one for minorities across America: the unfairness of their arrest and subsequent trials. The criminal justice is flawed and A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava illustrates how the system is one of shame and ignominy. A Naked Singularity showcases how officers of the law falsify arrests using arbitrary assumptions, thus demonstrating disgraceful policing.

When describing his daily career the narrator Casi says “The puppet master pulling strings from behind the bench was a bloated pink one on loan from the Bronx. The nameplate directly before him announced J. Manos in calligraphic gold” (De La Pava 2). Using the author’s description one might envision a circus or production. Consequently, De La Pava is saying that the legal system is one big circus that’s all for show. Metaphorically the author is comparing the legal system to a circus. He is saying that the court system is just one big spectacle or production. By definition a circus is “large public entertainment, typically presented in one or more very large tents or in an outdoor or indoor arena, featuring exhibitions of pageantry, feats of skill and daring, performing animals, etc.” Essentially the legal system is a form of entertainment used to provide attention or amusement to issue and the judges and lawyers are the show animals parading around. The legal system is meant to assess people on accused crimes and bring justice for the victims. But it has turned a publicized matter where abuses of power occur. Additionally, A Naked Singularity paints a picture of how the system works. He states “How you needed cops to do it and how their master, the System, needed to be constantly fed former people in order to function properly so that in a year typical to the city where the following took place about a half a million bodies were forcibly conscripted” (De La Pava 2). The imagery of bodies illustrates just how prisoners are treated not as humans but as “bodies” or physical structures. By calling the System the cops “master” De La Pava is comparing the system as a whole to some gluttonous being that needs to be in constant need of “bodies” in order to grow stronger. Hence, the cops are at the mercy of