If you’ve seen The Shawshank Redemption you know how this one prisoner, Brooks, came to the prison in “aught-five”, and had once seen an automobile before that. He gets released, presumably around 1955, and naturally is astonished at how they’re everywhere now, and he nearly gets himself killed trying to cross the street.
Are there any good accounts of actual cases like this? Hopefully free on the internet? Or if not, what books should I be looking for? I’d be interested in the case of anyone who actually spent 30 or 40 years in confinement beginning around the 1900, and so missed the tremendous advances over the first decades of the XXth century.