Dexter T. Gnome 
     
    
   
   
    
     Thursday, February 26,1981 page 6 
     
    
   
   
    
     By Cathy Waite , 
     
     U.P.E.I. was privileged 
     
     to have Roger Caron, author 
     
     of Go Boy and winner of the 
     
     Governor General's Award for 
     
    

    
     best non-fiction Canadian 
     
     literature of 1978, as quest 
     
     lecturer Monday evening. The 
     
     s’-'~mding—roan-only audience 
     
     in Duffy Amphitheatre was 
     
     awe-stricken at Caron's ac- 
     
    
   
   
    
     count of his life behind bars. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Caron has spent 24 of his 
     
     41 years in and out of 
     
     Canadian Penitentaries "as 
     
     a result of perverseness in 
     
     making unlawful withdrawals 
     
     Eran local banks and taking 
     
     unauthorized walks from local 
     
     jails". He first entered 
     
     prison walls at the age of 
     
     16, leaving his 15 brothers 
     
     and sisters behind forever. 
     
     Caron believes that he *turned 
     
     out to be the "bad seed" of 
     
     his family because of his 
     
     never-ending bursts of energy 
     
     that always seemed to get 
     
     him into trouble. He grew up 
     
     in the era knam as "hard 
     
    
   
   
    
     times" and with such a large 
     
     family, no one had the time 
     
     to listen or talk to a boy 
     
     with problems.  at an early 
     
     age,Caron had been branded 
     
    

    
     a criminal for life. 
     
    

    
     During Caron's lecture he 
     
     spoke of the many gastly 
     
     events he endured in prison. 
     
     One that cares tomind is a 
     
     gas invented by the Arteri- 
     
     cans which was to be tested 
     
     on "guinea pig" Canadian 
     
     convicts. Caron was forced 
     
     to undergo these gas treat— 
     
     ments, which would leave 
     
     him in a state of frenzy, 
     
    
   
   
    
     shaking violently frcm head 
     
     to toe. The final treatment 
     
     left him unconcious for 48 
     
     hours, long enough to con- 
     
     vince the prison doctor to 
     
     discontinue the gasings after 
     
     realizing its harmful effects. 
     
     Another incident which 
     
    

    
     Caron recalls as being one 
     
    

    
     of his turning points in his 
     
     life, was receiving a handful 
     
    
   
   
    
     Caron TeHs AH-\ 
     
    
   
   
    
     of jelly beans. He would 
     
    

    
     use these beans to spell 
     
     words which he knew would 
     
     anger the guards in his block. 
     
     Caron would continually spe 
     
     spell these unmentionable 
     
     words to annoy the guards 
     
     until they "triumphantly 
     
     seized" his jelly beans. 
     
    

    
     Frcm this, Caron learned the 
     
     "power of words over physical 
     
     strength", which gave him 
     
     initiative to write. So ' 
     
     began his self-therapy of 
     
     writing his emotions down on 
     
     paper. Twoyears later his 
     
     "Cinderella" story, Go Boy, 
     
     was born. 
     
    

    
     . Go Boy is Caron's memoir 
     
     of his life behind bars. For 
     
    
   
   
    
     ,the reader, the novel is a 
     
    
   
   
    
     dramatic, 
     
    

    
     gripping story of what a life- 
     
     time spent behind bars is 
     
     really like. It took Caren 
     
    

    
     16 years to couplets the 
     
     novel, which is a remarkable 
     
     feat when one considers he 
     
     read his first book at the 
     
    
   
   
    
     age of 17. 
     
    

    
     Carm presently does int-er 
     
     views on radio and television 
     
     shows, lectures throughout 
     
     Canada, and is a member of 
     
     the Inmate Advisory Board in 
     
     one of Canada's forenost pen— 
     
     itenturies. Caron feels good ' 
     
     about his lecturing because 
     
     it allows the outsicb world 
     
     to catch a glinpse of what 
     
     "a person on the other side 
     
     of the fence is like". 
     
    

    
     The novel has since sold 
     
     400,000 copies and is about 
     
     to be made “into a motion 
     
     picture starring Martin Sheen ~ 
     
     as Roger Caron. But for those 
     
     who can't wait to see the ‘ 
     
     movie,‘ Go is now available 
     
     in paperback at local book 
     
     stores. Caron also plans to 
     
     write a second novel. 
     
    

    
     The final note of Caron's 
     
     lecture is one that we are 
     
     all guilty of and can learn 
     
     fran:"Never take the things 
     
     you have for nothing for g 
     
     granted". Food for thought! 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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