Book Review: Neverwhere

"And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness.monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he know," (quote from back cover).
Neverwhere caught my attention and interest with its wide variety of characters and creatures. The theme of the book that i think is used would be "keep an open mind." Reasons being because throughout the entire book, Richard Mayhew constantly questions, doubts, and believes everything is not happening, which almost costs him his life multiple times. Also this characteristic begins to get on Door's nerves that he acts so ignorant at times. And one more reason being that none of that would have happened if Richard did not stop to help Door. Meaning that you should make the best of life because interesting things will happen.
The setting of the book plays a major role in impacting Richard. First of all, everything seems the same, to an extent, making Richard have to trust that things are different. Also there are new places inaccessible to Richard before, which plays with his logic and sanity. thirdly, among these places, magic exist around places of the environment, further messing with his mind.
Now, on the topic of connections to other things, the only book I would think comes close to the creativity of this would be Alice's adventures in Wonderland. And I like how they use real places in Britain, connecting the book the the real world.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to the explore the boundaries of imagination and sanity.

Argument: Death Penalty

Assertion/Claim (Topic Sentence) = Main Idea

• The death penalty should be legalized 

Evidence -Concrete Detail:

• Keeping Criminals alive means prisons being overcrowded with no room for more people.
• Commentary 1: With prisons being so full and crowded, some criminals (who might even be worse than the ones already there) won't be able to stay or even go to prison, causing them to be on a parole or whatever else it may be.
• Commentary 2: Also much taxpayer money goes to criminal living expenses in prison. With so many people in prison, the amount of money that goes to that is extremely high. 

Evidence -Concrete Detail:

• With prisons being overcrowded along with just basically keeping killers and such alive means giving them another possible chance to kill again like many have done so many times before.
• Commentary 1: It would give closure to suffering families because they will know that they will never kill again. That they are no longer in the world somewhere.
• Commentary 2: And with so many more criminals being put in prison and being put on parole. There is a chance of escape giving them more opportunities to do what they have done before. Or maybe worse. 

Opposing Claims/They Say:

• It's barbaric and unlawful.
• It's not an effective crime deterrent.

My Rebuttal/I Say:

• Capital punishment is a better deterrent than they may think. Some people would rather not risk their life to commit a crime. And it is more barbaric to give a killer a chance to do it again. Or let a suffering family live knowing that the person who murdered their loved ones is still out there somewhere.

My Paragraph

The Death Penalty should be legalized. Keeping Criminals alive means prisons being overcrowded with no room for more people. With prisons being so full and crowded, some criminals (who might even be worse than the ones already there) won't be able to stay or even go to prison, causing them to be on a parole or whatever else it may be. Also much taxpayer money goes to criminal living expenses in prison. With so many people in prison, the amount of money that goes to that is extremely high. With prisons being overcrowded along with just basically keeping killers and such alive means giving them another possible chance to kill again like many have done so many times before. It would give closure to suffering families because they will know that they will never kill again. That they are no longer in the world somewhere. And with so many more criminals being put in prison and being put on parole. There is a chance of escape giving them more opportunities to do what they have done before. Or maybe worse. They Say It's barbaric and unlawful. And It's not an effective crime deterrent. I Say Capital punishment is a better deterrent than they may think. Some people would rather not risk their life to commit a crime. And it is more barbaric to give a killer a chance to do it again. Or let a suffering family live knowing that the person who murdered their loved ones is still out there somewhere.

My Thinking:
This is mostly inductive due to such interjection of my opinion.
Source: 

• Death Penalty: Pros And Cons