Being Good Or Bad Research Paper

Being Good > Being Neutral or Bad The stories “The Last Night of the World,” “Marionettes, Inc.” and “Kaleidoscope” are all science fiction stories from the book The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury.

These stories all take place in a future, dystopian version of America. The stories all share a very powerful and important theme.This theme is: It is important to not only avoid doing bad, but to do good for yourself, others, and the world around you. The stories “The Last Night of the World,” “Kaleidoscope,” and “Marionettes, Inc.”, which are all science fiction stories part of the book The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury, all share the following theme: Doing good deeds is better than doing neutral or bad deeds. “The Last Night of the World”

In the story it said, “He fell swiftly, like a bullet, like a pebble, like an iron weight, objective, objective all of the time now, not sad or happy or anything, but only wishing he could do a good thing now that everything was gone, a good thing for just himself to know about” (Bradbury 25). This quote shows that Hollis regrets not doing enough nice things in his lifetime. During his lifetime, Hollis stayed very neutral and did very few good deeds as well as bad deeds.Hollis’ lack of good deeds causes him to have regrets right before the end of his life. Also, in the story, Hollis compares himself to Lespere. Unlike Hollis, who is very unhappy before dying, Lespere is very happy. Lespere is very happy because he had lived his dreams. In other words, he has at least committed good deeds for himself. In other words, Lespere had committed deeds that were good because they at least benefitted him. While Lespere lived out his life and did good deeds, Hollis only dreamed of doing his good deeds and remained neutral throughout his life, which lead to him having regrets before the end of his life. This shows a reason as to why one should do good deeds in his or her life. This reason is that if one does no good deeds throughout his or her life, then he or she will regret having not done those good

In “The Last Night of the World,” the world ends because of the humans’ neutrality and lack of good deeds. In “Marionettes Inc.” the main character’s bad deed leads to his ultimate demise. In “Kaleidoscope,” the main character’s overall neutrality and lack of good deed leads to him regretting not doing any good deeds throughout his life. If we, as humans, want to be good and righteous individuals, then we must do good deeds instead of doing bad ones and/or staying