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The frightening and powerful warden of Alcatraz is also Piper’s father. He’s the boss of every employee at the prison, and in addition to overseeing the convicts, he also demands complete obedience from his employees’ children—he insists at several points that he can and will punish or fire his employees for their children’s transgressions. Though he encourages Moose to learn to think for himself, Moose also suspects that Warden Williams prioritizes obedience more than independent thinking. Warden Williams adores Piper and looks past at least some of her own rule-breaking, though it’s implied that he’s aware of (and punishes her for) more than what Piper lets on to her friends.
Warden Williams Quotes in Al Capone Does My Shirts
The Al Capone Does My Shirts quotes below are all either spoken by Warden Williams or refer to Warden Williams. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 12: What About the Electric Chair?
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I have to admit...Piper is pretty smart. But she’s going to get in trouble for this, I just know it.
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Chapter 37: Carrie Kelly
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When I hang up the phone, I know I have to do something. Have to. I have no idea what. I wonder if this is how my mother feels. How she has always felt.
Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don’t make sense to anyone else.
I look directly into his blue eyes. “Remember you said we should think hard about going against the rules? Remember you said that. Well, I have thought hard.”
The warden meets my gaze. “I see that,” he says. “But in this case you’re asking me to bend the rules. And I’m not about to. You may think it’s the right thing to do, but I do not.”
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Chapter 38: What Happened?
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“I figured Capone could write back in the book—you know, underlining very faintly in pencil the way the cons do.”
“No, I don’t know.”
“Let’s say you want to say, ‘I need your help.’ You go carefully through the book and look for an I and underline it. And then an n and underline it and an e and so on until you’ve spelled your whole message.”
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Warden Williams Quotes in Al Capone Does My Shirts
The Al Capone Does My Shirts quotes below are all either spoken by Warden Williams or refer to Warden Williams. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 12: What About the Electric Chair?
Quotes
I have to admit...Piper is pretty smart. But she’s going to get in trouble for this, I just know it.
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Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 37: Carrie Kelly
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When I hang up the phone, I know I have to do something. Have to. I have no idea what. I wonder if this is how my mother feels. How she has always felt.
Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don’t make sense to anyone else.
I look directly into his blue eyes. “Remember you said we should think hard about going against the rules? Remember you said that. Well, I have thought hard.”
The warden meets my gaze. “I see that,” he says. “But in this case you’re asking me to bend the rules. And I’m not about to. You may think it’s the right thing to do, but I do not.”
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Chapter 38: What Happened?
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“I figured Capone could write back in the book—you know, underlining very faintly in pencil the way the cons do.”
“No, I don’t know.”
“Let’s say you want to say, ‘I need your help.’ You go carefully through the book and look for an I and underline it. And then an n and underline it and an e and so on until you’ve spelled your whole message.”
