Forgiveness Overboard

The Captain.

The Officers.

The Survivors.

Had I been a passenger on the Titanic, could I forgive any of these people? A large portion of these people acted out of arrogance. Nothing could possibly sink such an outstanding creation, built by man. Careless, these people were unprepared and in the end, they suffered for their superior attitudes. They could be forgiven according to their further actions. Fear makes people stupid. To an extent, the actions of these people should be ignored. Everyone aboard is going to act irrationally, forgive-ably...to an extent. Those that allowed their panic to overtake them and to do whatever it takes to make it out alive, could not call for forgiveness.

Who Will You Be?

"What would have been the sense of it anyway? Not one of us was going to escape from this death hut."


     Hopeless and downtrodden, Simon fails to see the point in elaborating upon his dream of Karl, the dying SS man, to the doctor. He did not need another person to proudly tell him that he had done the right thing in running away from the pleas of a dying man. That would not appease Simon's conscience. It would only magnify just how desensitized the world has grown around him. The prisoners show not even the slightest amount of pity towards the soldier, bringing them closer to resembling the animals that they have been treated like for so long. 

      No matter what a person goes through or where they are, it is always important for that person to remember to keep true to their character. People have to remember what makes them who they are. When people lose track of that, they lose everything. No longer individuals, they just follow the crowd, monotonously moving from day to day. They can no longer think for themselves and lose what makes them unique. Simon cannot wholeheartedly believe the general opinion of his fellow prisoners because he has still kept his individuality and his will to think. He realizes that the SS man was still human and while he did perform some terrible acts in his lifetime, he had not been pure evil. The man had been a small child at one point, growing and learning like everyone else. The solider was haunted by his actions. If he did not deserve forgiveness, did he not at least deserve some sort of feeling? Could he not have the smallest ounce of pity instead of the frightening sentiment of "one less" felt throughout the camp? The emotion illuminates all the pain the have felt and are unable to overcome, making their opinions even scarier.