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conversations.value: a plot for a book about Warden, Jim, Eva entitled Not About Nightingales
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conversations.value: Not About Nightingales: The play begins outside the warden\'s office with Eva Crane and mrs Bristol.\nEva is there for a job interview as the new secretary for the Warden, while mrs Bristol is here to give her son Sailor Jack some baked goods she made just for him.\nMoments after the scene begins, Jim walks through towards the Warden\'s office and informs the women that the Warden is out inspecting the grounds, and may not be back for a while.\nmrs Bristol can\'t stay and leaves the food on the Warden\'s desk.\nWarden Whalen enters in an unannounced, brash way.\nHe is a short, fat, yet powerful man with a presence.\nEva begins to beg him for a job; however the Warden doesn\'t want to hear it, saying "A business executive is not interested in your personal misfortunes.\n" In the end, after careful consideration, he gives Eva the job.\nMeanwhile, Jim is being escorted back to his cell.\nJim is a convict who helps out the Warden during the day.\nHe enjoys the job because it gets him out of his cell all day.\nAt nights when he returns, his cellmates are constantly calling him names such as Allison and Canary Bird.\nSome of the notable supporting characters introduced are Butch, the unofficial leader among the inmates; Queen, a gay convict who\'s not all that smart; and Ollie, a smart black convict who\'s well respected by all the inmates.\nThe next morning mrs Bristol returns to see the Warden and this time she had brought more food for her son.\nShe explains how she hasn\'t heard from her son in a while and is getting worried.\nThe Warden explains, in a coarse manner, that her son had gone insane and had to be killed.\nThe next day, Eva talks to Jim and asks him about the eating conditions at the prison.\nJim says the food is terrible; however the Warden enters, and says that the food is fine.\nIn an effort to put Jim back in line he tells the story to Eva about when Jim first got to the prison and how he had to whip him for 14 straight days to try to break through his rough exterior.\nThis story is too much for Eva as she ends up fainting at the end of the scene.\nDown in the prison, the prisoners begin to get pains in their stomachs and have a hard time getting to sleep.\nButch says that it\'s the poor food they are served everyday that is causing their pain, and suggests that they all go on a hunger strike.\nThe men, all in pain, agree to the idea.\nJim re-enters the prison and tells the men to hold off on the hunger-strike as he feels with his upcoming parole he can "tear down the walls of this prison".\nThe men agree and say they will hold off for a little longer, and instead go to dinner and cause a small prison riot.\nBy doing so, they have all earned time in "the hole.\n" Back upstairs, Eva is working with the Warden alone in his office.\nThe Warden begins asking personal questions toward Eva and also starts being suggestive, even asking her to "come into the closet with him.\n" Before anything can happen, Jim walks in with a report about the prisoners in "the hole," even bringing them up to see him.\nAfter talking to them all, the Warden decides they all need more time and he sends them back.\nOllie, however, loses himself and doesn\'t want to go back; instead he rams his head into a wall and kills himself.\nWord reaches the prisoners and at this moment they can\'t take it anymore.\nThey are fed up with everything that is going on at the prison and begin their hunger strike.\nThe Warden begins the act, talking with the Prisons Chaplain, who is concerned about how the Warden is treating his prisoners.\nThe Warden portrays his, "my way or the highway" attitude toward the Chaplain.\nThe Chaplain, not in agreement with the Warden\'s methods, decides to quit.\nOut in the waiting room, life in the prison is getting a bit restless, due in part of the hunger strike.\nEva is answering phone calls left and right, while showing signs of stress during the process.\nJim enters with a bloody arm.\nHe tells her that he walked too close to one of the cages and one of the inmate\'s grabbed hold of him.\nJim tells her she should leave this place, as it\'s not safe, but she refuses.\nHer true feelings for Jim begin to show as she wants to wait till his parole comes up and leave with him.\nThey begin to move in for a kiss when the Warden enters and breaks it up.\nThe new prison reverend enters the office and is instantly hired by the Warden, saying "I pride myself on being adjustable.\n" He goes on to say that he won\'t interfere with what the Warden does because he\'s not in charge, he\'s just the reverend.\nAfterwards, the Warden comes out and lets Jim and Eva know that if the hunger-strike continues, the men in Hall C will be moved to Klondike, a boiler room used as a torture room for out of line inmates, where the temperatures in the room can reach up to 150 degrees.\nMoments later, Jim and Eva are alone again in the Warden\'s office.\nJim opens up to Eva about how he can\'t stand the prison, the inmates, the Warden, and the guards.\nEva continues to remind him that once he gets parole in a month, the two will be able to run away together, but Jim is no longer optimistic about his parole.\nEva reassures him that he will get out because she plans to go to the newspapers and tell them about all the terrible things that go on in the prison.\nAt this moment, the Warden enters and tells Jim to take a file downstairs, thus leaving him alone with Eva once again.\nThe Warden tells her that she can\'t leave since the building has been put on lockdown.\nThis frightens Eva, getting her worked up, with the additional tension from the warden who takes advantage of the situation by seducing her.\nHowever,something comes up and the warden leaves.\nJust then, Jim enters.\nEva tells him that she wants to leave the prison, no matter what it takes.\nJim begins to devise a plan, to meet in the southwest corner of the prison yard when it\'s dark out, to attempt their escape together.\nThe act starts out in Klondike where the prisoners from Hall C are beginning to feel the heat from the steam boiler room.\nButch is doing whatever he can to keep the morale up among his men by singing and dancing, but it\'s having no effect.\nMeanwhile, Jim and Eva have met in the southwest corner of the yard; however, the guards and the Warden have caught them and have begun to haul off Jim and put him in Klondike with the other prisoners.\nWarden also starts to blackmail Eva and ends up making a deal with her, that he will mail the letter of recommendation for Jim\'s release if she sleeps with him.\nEva reluctantly agrees and episode three ends with the warden showing Eva to his "inner room".\nBack down in Klondike, Jim has joined the rest of the inmates; however, before Schultz, the head guard, can notice anything about Jim or the rest of the inmates, Butch has grabbed hold of the guard and Jim has stolen his revolver and keys.\nThey inmates open the door and lock Schultz into the steaming cell, leaving him to die.\nBoth Butch and Jim storm into the Warden\'s office; Butch looking for the Warden, and Jim looking for Eva.\nThis leads to a confrontation with the warden who practically begs for his life in a cowardly manner, "Stop.\nI\'m a family man.\nI\'ve got a wife.\nA daughter.\nA little-girrrrl".\nBut, he is eventually killed by Butch with a whip.\nWhen they have a minute to talk, Eva and Jim discuss their future outside of the prison, and how they\'re in love and the many places they plan to travel to.\nSuddenly extra police forces arrive at the prison to deal with the prison riots.\nJim comes up with a plan to jump out into the river and swim to shore away from all the riots and noise.\nHe gives Eva his shoes and tells her to look for him in the personal columns.\nJim jumps into the water, but because of the height of the jump and the fact that it is late at night, Eva is unsure if he made it safely in the water.\nThe police arrive in the tower and grab Eva to take her to safety, bringing the play to an end.\nThey question her about a pair of shoes she\'s got (which belongs to Jim), she replies "I picked them up somewhere.\nI can\'t remember", and continues to cling on to them.\nThe audience remains unsure if Jim ever did make it out safely.