In-text and Blocked Citation Example from The Power of One

Prompt: Using a few entries from your Triple Entry Journal, write about something you learned about life from The Power of One.

In Bryce Courtney’s The Power of One we learn that “A man is only free when he is free in his heart” (196). Doc tells the main character, Peekay this, while imprisoned during the second World War, his only crime that of being German. Doc asks Peekay in a letter:

What is a German?... Does it tell you if he is a good man? Or a bad man? No, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is German. A man must think what he is on the inside. What he is on the outside? How can this matter (182)?

                  This is something Peekay incorporates into his understanding of the power of one, and is something that shapes how he views everyone, especially Geel Piet, a life-long criminal he meets inside Barberton Prison. When discussing this man with Morrie, whom everyone else sees only as a kaffir and a criminal, Peekay says, “It’s not what a man does, it’s what a man is that counts” (353).

Key technical points:
1. The in-text citations all are a part of a larger sentence; quote marks set them off from the rest of the text, and the page numbers are in parentheses at the end of the sentence before the terminal punctuation mark.
2. The blocked citation is single spaced and therefore does not require quote marks to set it off from the rest of the text. It also has a page number in parentheses at the end of the sentence before the terminal punctuation mark.