Oakdale Elementary School’s Decline
Hobbs explains, “When Jackie’s younger siblings had gone there, it had been (nice).When Rob began kindergarten, it was no longer. The school’s decline wasn’t immediately evident…Jackie would walk Rob there and watch him join the stream of children his age going inside with backpacks and lunches…But she observed something less tangible in the expressions and movements of the teachers, the laissez-faire attitudes to fellow parents. Most of these children, Jackie felt, were being sent here to be watched for a few hours, not to be taught.” Jackie’s observations entail the imagery of an inherent degeneration which is beyond the physical constructions. The decline suggests that the teachers’ expressions are pointers of their fading enthusiasm. Perhaps, it is the debility which stimulates her to contemplate enrolling Rob to a private school.
The Imagery of Marijuana
Hobbs explains, “Procuring enough Marijuana to distribute was not difficult, but procuring quality marijuana was. At Yale, the quality had barely mattered; college kids would smoke anything, and most of them didn’t know the difference. In the city, although many drug users would smoke anything, they had more options and less disposable.” The imagery of the two variants of marijuana fragments the potential markets that would be exploited for the business. Dealers such as Rob must grasp their clients' prospects in order to run a sustainable trade. Supplying the low quality marijuana in the city would have been an adverse business strategy considering the consumers’ varied choices. Correspondingly, supplying the high quality marijuana to the Yale market would have occasioned losses.
The Imagery of “The Basement of 34 Smith Street”
Hobbs expounds “Now Rob spent nights there alone constructing a hydroponic system to planters beneath LED lights, which consumed more than three-fourths of the floor space…Patiently, through the same process of trial and error that had defined his years in the lab, he used simple biology to fuse various genotypes in the seedling stage, and over the course of the months in early 2006, he perfected his strain. The basement wasn't big enough for mass production, but it spawned sufficient product to cut his Sour Diesel with the less particular buds he bought from his connects.” The imagery of the lab portrays Rob’s ingenuity and resolve to innovate a fascinating class of marijuana. Perhaps, if Rob’s ingenuity had been exploited constructively, it would have been contributing to revolutionizing potent drugs to liberate humans from agony instead of the destructive marijuana.
