Importance Of Unselfishness In The Play 'Pen Of My Aunt'

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In the world today, people need to treat one another with unselfishness. Being unselfish means that you are willing to put others and their wishes before your own. Today’s times are filled with injustices. But, unselfishness has the power to help overcome them. In people’s lives today, they need to live unselfishly because it can free people, unite people together, and bring justice and fairness to everyone. When people are unselfish, they have the power to free people. The short play, “ Pen of my Aunt,” displays this great power. In the play, Madame, the main character, uses unselfishness to free people from injustice. This play takes place at the Madame’s French country house during World War Two. The miscreant corporal finds Stranger wandering in the woods near Madame’s …show more content…

The narrator of the short story, “The Balek Scales,” had a grandfather that lived in an antiquated time when his people and him were ruled by the Baleks. The Baleks seemed to be fair, but really were not. They cheated people out of their money for many years without the people knowing it. Then, the people find out that they were being cheated cheated. So, they created a quick, makeshift plan to steal the book that had all of the payments recorded in it. The stole it to find out how much money the people were owed and tried to help bring justice to the people. The text states, “made their way into my great-grandfather’s front room, shooting and stabbing as they came, and removed the scales and the book by force” (Boll 218). The example from the text shows how the people were fighting for fairness, even if their relatives and peers were being maimed. The fact that the people never quit, even when their loved ones were being killed, shows just how unselfish the people were when fighting for justice. When people display acts of unselfishness, it often times leads to fairness and

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