Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Money vs. Morals
In the story From Ragged Dick , the reader could tell the character main motive was not money, but his own morals that lead him to save the boy. If he was present the money before hand, would his main motive still be to save the boy because of his morals or would it he have save the boy because of the money?
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I believe he truly acted on morals when he saved the boy. He knew he was a good swimmer and that he had the skills to save the boy. He was surrounded by the frantic Father and saw the boy in the water. In this emergency situation he had to save to the boy because he knew he could. If he did not save the boy he would have a hard time living with himself just watching a boy drowned when he could have saved him.
I feel like it would have been harder to prove that he was tryig to save the boy based off of Morals instead of greed. But I do believe that he would have saved the childs life regardless if there was a prize involved or not.
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