Evil People: How Different People Think In The World

The Psychology of Good and Evil in contrast to Ferguson Unrest and Race in America

The problem of evil is the notion that, how can an all-good, all-powerful, all-loving God exists when evil seems to exist also. The problem of evil also gives way to the notion that if hell exists then God must be evil for sending anyone there. I believe both of these ideas that God can exist while there is evil and God is not evil for sending anyone to hell. I believe hell exists in light of the idea that God is holy and just. The larger is how anyone can go to heaven. I will try to answer the problem of evil with regards to the problem of heaven and hell.

Just like his father, Sohrab is “great with a sling shot.’ He hits Assef in the eye with his slingshot, and he and Amir escape. The novel’s falling action is Amir’s efforts to bring Sohrab to the U.S. which he eventually was successful in doing. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. I liked the author’s style and diction, both made the novel a fun and enjoyable read even though there were many dark parts to the novel. At times I found some of the terminology difficult, however I appreciated the setting as it allowed me to learn about Afghanistan. I loved many of the quotes, particularly the one that stood out was, “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.” This quote is so true and is the entire basis of this story, if Hassan’s actions had been different “on that frigid overcast day in 1975,”his entire life would have been different. I am thrilled that Amir was able to find peace and redemption as this shows strength of Amir’s character. I felt that Amir deserved his final redemption, however I wish that both him and Hassan would have known from early on that they were

In the Possibility of evil this book has very many twist and turns all through out this story . With revenge and karma just around the corner. In the Possibility of Evil by shirley jackson it is clear that what goes around comes around comes because she wrote mean letter to her neighbors, which caused them to cut down and destroy her garden; but she was also mean and rude to the kids in her neighborhood. The counter claim in this story is treat other the way you want to be treated. In this story the theme is what goes around comes around, and karma coming back at you.

He is characterized with all the contrasting qualities that make up Amir. Amir’s confrontation with Assef is one of the most important scenes in the novel. It is important because it is where he finally faces the demons he’s held at bay and also where he finally confronts the role of his complicity as a Pashtun over the ethnic discrimination of the Hazaras. Assef portrays his Afghanistan as “a beautiful mansion littered with garbage” and says that “someone has to take out that garbage” (The Kite Runner, 284). As part of the Taliban, that is exactly what he’s been doing and he lives for it and the suffering of the Hazaras.

When Amir searched for the Taliban official, he witnessed Assef giving out a punishment to a couple guilty of adultery. Also, Sohrab had told Amir in which he did not think he was good enough for anyone anymore. “‘Because I don’t want them to see me . . . I’m so dirty’” (319). Assef’s actions had caused Sohrab to constantly doubt himself and to question his own existence, eventually to the point of suicide.

When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Sohrab, he watches the cleric accusing a man and woman of adultery. The Taliban, numb to the horrific screams of the woman as she is thrown in her grave, derive pleasure from pelting stones at her. Forced to silently watch the hateful scene, people like Amir cannot dare to object or they risk being killed. Unable to do or say anything, Amir watches those lecherous animals kicking the dead couple’s bodies barbarically. Internalizing this incident, Amir realizes that the only way to save Sohrab is by confronting oppressors. A Talib official now, Assef is responsible for killing Hazaras and for sexually abusing Sohrab. Reminded of the same scene where Assef bullies Amir and Hassan, Amir this time fights instead of staying silent to Assef’s tantrums. Fortunately with Sohrab’s help on the slingshot, Amir is able to defeat Assef and atone for his past mistakes of abandoning his half-brother, Hassan. Taking the initiative to right a wrong, Amir defies the bystander effect thus breaking the cycle of immoral acts. Knowing that he cannot change Assef’s brutish ways by mere words, Amir soughts violence but saves Sohrab. Assef, a bigot, believes that Pashtuns can show their power over others through

Assef is the prime example of someone who chose evil, power, and selfish gain in times of both easiness and hardship. Due to this, he becomes a psychopathic figure, who delights in abusing power to cause pain. He grew up similar to Amir, surrounded by riches and given everything he could possibly want, and granted a great standing in society due to his race and wealth. However, from a young age he chooses to violently wield this power as he is introduced as someone who has a “well-earned reputation for savagery,” (Hosseini 38). He commits the act of rape, a sexual act that is used as a sign of power, against Hassan to show that he was in charge. When he was finally in a position of pain, he used it to add fire to his rage and become more cruel. A soldier who hurt him suffered a fate of “Being shot in the balls, “ (Hosseini 284). Assef’s joining of the Taliban further illustrates Assef’s evil personality as he joins them to “take out the garbage,” (Hosseini 284) to refer to the ethnic cleansing of the Hazaras. The Taliban are a reflection of his values as they abuse their power through violence. A certain story brings an understanding to the kind of people they are: “The worker, who was running a project north of Kabul, said he had tolerated a series of petty thefts by his Afghan workforce until his transistor radio, his only means of getting news of the outside world, went missing. He complained to the local mujahedin commander. A couple of days later the radio reappeared in his room, and he thought no more about it until the following morning, when he found the bodies of two men, shot through the head, in the road outside his compound. After that he kept any complaints of theft to him,” (Whitaker). The Taliban used murder as punishment for a petty theft, a clear overreaction for the purpose of solidifying fear into people’s hearts to keep their power, something Assef does by raping

It is difficult to separate the life of Amir's family from the occasions happening in Afghanistan. Amir and his father were forced to leave the country and to enter a country to the U.S. There is no described/explained description given by the (person telling the story) of the political events happening in Afghanistan, but the reader knows about the conflict that was continuing within the country after the Soviet troops left. When Amir tells us about theTaliban being in control of the country, the reader learns that the only wat they control the people is by religion. In the novel, there is Assef, a character who shows the reader the clear and colorful image of the Taliban. He was born into a part Afghan and German family, and as the story grows larger, it becomes clear that he possesses strong (must strictly follow religious laws) views on his religion. It is obvious that Assef is the (person or thing that irritates and fights with someone or something) of the novel. Since (the time when a person is a child), he is showed/represented to be a mentally sick person and a generally grouchy person. When he wanted to hurt Amir, he raped his closest friend Hassan, and he governor Adolf Hitler's life story as a birthday present. As he was growing up, his views on religion became stronger, even though they are usually going (or arguing) against with the main ways of thinking/basic truths/rules of Islam. (without any concern

Although no one but Amir knows what he did, Amir still feels that he needs to redeem himself, and that the way he will achieve it is “making up for” all the terrible things he did to Hassan, to cancel out each act eating at his conscience. During his fight with Assef, Amir says “for the first time since the winter of 1975, I felt at peace. I laughed because I saw that, in some hidden nook in a corner of my mind, I'd even been looking forward to this” (289). Amir feels that he deserves the beating from Assef that he believes he should have gotten a long time ago. He is finally being punished for something only he knew he did.

Around the time that all the boys were teenagers Assef raped Hassan for something that Hassan had said to him weeks earlier when he was standing up for Amir. Years later, Hassan and his wife Farzana were shot for being Hazara. Sohrab, Hassan’s son was placed in an overcrowded orphanage. The man running the orphanage would basically sell children to a man who would come every month and pick one. If the man running it would refuse, then the man coming every month would take 10 instead of 1, the children never returned to the orphanage. Many years later Assef is still a bully. He is now with the Taliban and is the man who goes to the orphanage to take children. One month, he takes Sohrab and he rapes him, a little child. Sohrab is not the only child that this has happened to with Assef but that just shows Assefs true character. Instead of taking the kids out of the orphanage and helping them, he takes them and uses them for his

On the other hand, Assef does not do this, once again proving his lack of morality. The nature of the Afghan culture tremendously affects children’s morals, although difficult to break free from, it is possible to be done, and Amir proves this to be

The problem of evil is the question of how to reconcile the existence of evil with that of a deity who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. The trilemma was stated by the Greek philosopher Epicurus during antiquity and was restated during the modern period by David Hume. Epicurus poses a trilemma in order to refute the notion of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God. He first argues that if God is unable to prevent evil, he is not omnipotent. If, alternatively, God is not willing to prevent evil, he is not good. How then, Epicurus asks, can evil exists if God is both willing and able to prevent evil?

Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta, William Shakespeare’s Richard III, and John Garder’s Grendel _______ The topic of evil and from where it originates is one that cannot be proven through factual evidence, and so rather is a notion that exists only in the thoughts of each individual, allowing him or her to possess unique beliefs that affect the way he or she lives.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novel about a man named Henry Jekyll who