Forgiveness for the Titanic

     My husband is dead, and its all Captain Smith's fault. I survived but he did not. I will never forgive him for what he did. He did not slow down even when he did get iceberg warnings. That is plain stupidity! If it wasn't for that idiotic, stubborn man my husband would be in New York with me, holding my hand and telling me that everything would be good from here on out. But it wont. How will I make it on my own? Especially with my child on the way. The Captain didn't even warn us of what was to come. Maybe if we had been acknowledged earlier, my husband would have survived. Instead, he sunk with the Titanic and that fool of a captain. Captain Smith deserved to die. My husband did not. He was a good, hardworking man who helped in any way he could to get the women on the lifeboats. He should still be here. Can I survive by myself and my child? If I don't, that captain is to be blamed...completely.

Does a Murderer deserve pity?

     A S.S soldier, who killed innocent Jewish families by orders of his commander, asks a Jew for pity. But is he truly sorry? In my opinion, he is. In The Sunflower, Simon (the Jew) says, "I saw he was torturing himself. He was determined to gloss over nothing." If the soldier wasn't regretting all that he did, he wouldn't have called the Jew to his chamber in the first place, much less recall what made him guilty. As the text said, he "tortured" himself repeating his past. If he's strong enough to admit that what he did was wrong, he should have pity. In the confession, the soldier says, "Believe me, I would be ready to suffer worse and longer pains if by that means I could bring back the dead, at Dnepropetrovsk." He is not only willing to suffer for the Jews he killed but he would suffer more and longer just to bring those Jews back. He regrets all he did and should be able to die knowing he was at least pitied.