Would anyone voluntarily sit in a room with a total stranger if the only thing they knew about him was that he had just brutally kidnapped, raped, and killed 2 teens? Think of how Sister Helen Prejean might have felt in her book Dead Man Walking. When Sister Helen Prejean decided to go to St. Thomas to help the poor, she was setting off on a journey that would change her life forever. Sister Helen will …showed first 75 words of 778 total…

…showed last 75 words of 778 total…calling, to her struggles and trials to her revelation and return, is just as much a hero¡¯s journey as Neo¡¯s journey in The Matrix. The determination and emotions that Helen Prejean feels are so strong that the only thing that rivals her commitment to ending the death penalty is her commitment to God. Not many people can block out all criticism and ridicule to stand up for what they believe in. Could you?