fear of God – At the beginning of Wall’s story he begins as most of the narratives do, with a context of the family life and how the individual responded to their family.  It is safe to say that Wall is another whose path of disobedience began at the early stages writing that her parents “…taught the fear of God.” She not following her parents counsel decided upon living a life without the fear of God and this has accounted for her dire situation.

innocence – Wall’s narrative includes a short list of a few crimes that she had committed as well as her own admittance that there were far too many other crimes to be listed in such a short narrative.  However she is claiming to be innocent of the said burglary for which she is going to be sentenced to death.  It seems ridiculous that she would be so resigned to her fate, even thanking a litany of people, given the fact that she contends the charges to be false.  This leads me to believe that either she had absolutely no faith in the justice system and became so disheartened as to not care of her own death or that there is something contrived in this narrative.

2. youth-here another category is presented by which criminals can be grouped. since in many cases the deviant acts we’ve read about began in childhood, like Wall, she hopes the younger generation will heed her warning.