The Healers, We Are Faced With The Problem Of Good Vs. Evil

The issue of evil in the world raises questions with which everyone wrestles. Pain and suffering come into everyone’s life to some degree or another. Trying to find meaning and purpose in the midst of suffering, whether our own or someone else’s, is difficult regardless of what worldview one holds. How individuals and societies deal with this issue will have important implications for those individuals as well as to the whole of society.

Good and evil have existed since the beginning of mankind. Good defends the righteous, as evil has been bent on destruction. In today’s society, many people believe that good will always triumph over evil. The murderer will eventually be caught by the police; the carjacker will one day meet his doom; the superhero will defeat the evil villain. Simply, in some circumstances, this is not entirely true. Good does not always prevail over evil. This is exceptionally true in the movie No Country for Old Men by the Coen brothers. The dominant theme in the Coen brother’s movie is evil.

Avoiding evil does make one virtuous, but requires an active choice. They can't live without out one another. A reason

THEME: The line between good and evil is sometimes unclear, and as a result, people often think that they are doing the right thing when it is actually the wrong action, and vice versa.

People are always getting into situations that have two possible ways to go. That person can choose the right thing to do or the worse. There have been numerous amounts of people asking the question “what is good and evil?” Many have tried conducting experiments to try and find the roots of what makes people good/evil? Evil acts and evil itself can be shown through the social, economic, and mental environment.

One behavior that is encouraged in this work is the no matter one you should always try to over come evil. This is evident when the good mind submitted to the bad minds offer to meet to resolve who would oversee universe once and for all. Even thought the good mind is good he does what ever is necessary to defeat the bad mind. He does this by getting the bad mind to confess what his instrument of death was, in the case deer horns.

Acceptance is one aspect that everyone in the human race strives for. But there are those who become outsiders from the world around them. These outsiders can sometimes be the thing that the rest of the people find extraordinary. In the stories The Healer by Aimee Bender and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the central character finds themselves as the outsiders at the beginning of the story but towards the end, the reader is taught that maybe these outsiders could bring comfort to others. These characters, specifically the old man and the fire girl are blessings in disguise for the people around them, bringing comfort to the people who may need it.

Almost every choice a character makes weighs their conscience against possible unjust consequences. And even though all the characters go through an experience that would be emotionally painful many characters remain evil because experiencing pain does not automatically make the character great. They become nobel when they choose to “see feelingly” (4.6.164). And those devoid of conscience remain evil because in the hard times they choose not to see and not to feel. The suffering and the pain cannot change a person, it can only bring about the choice between morality and comfort, between a conscience and a guilt free

In chapter four the author looks at the defeat of good and evil. Evans processes the mechanics of defeat, conversion and the defeat of evil, and the disposition to act.

People usually give into the evil by someone else treating them evilly or abusively. People, who are good, don’t let this change them as a person. The “fire-red” evil is shown in issues like child abuse, domestic violence and police brutality. For example, in The Gathering is the story behind Danny. “Calling the police had been instinctive, but then I remembered Danny’s story” (Page 129). The police make the rule and laws and enforce them, and then they break them. They can do what they like and hurt whoever they want in The Gathering (page 119). The Mental scars which Danny carried, changed Danny as a person. This is same as the scars that are left on the people who were evilly attacked or abused sometime in their life.

“I disagree with what Dalrymple has to say, I believe we are all born with a little evil and a little good in us, and that we make the decision of which one to nourish and grow. I also believe that as children the environment we are raised in has a great impact in who we become and who we choose to be. Even if we are born in an evil surrounding, we do have the choice to make it better and make ourselves most importantly better; we don’t have to go in the path of evil. People make their choices as to which path they would take the evil, or the good. As with the patients he had, many of them kept going through the same path of choosing the evil even when they know the consequences. His lady patient kept going to the same evil men, even when she knew there would be no good out of them, and no good would come for her

Countervailing power is the too-simple concept that describes how powerful actors with privileged access to decision-making processes. Countervailing power conjures images of organizations of patients facing down health maintenance organizations. They appear as interest groups, public interest litigators, social movements, or perhaps crosscutting networks of professionals and officials. Four sources of countervailing power lie in government regulation, managed care systems, doctor-patient relationship changes, and health care business corporations.

However, Gaozi’s argument can deliver relief to those who believe their lives turned out dramatically different than they anticipated. Some people may look at themselves and see wickedness as their true nature and feel ashamed or wonder where they went wrong. If they rely on Gaozi, then they may feel unburdened of their wrong doing because they know their environment shaped their life, and they had no other choice but to go west. They would gain freedom from their choices and solace in knowing their essence is not bad, but neutral.

When someone does something bad to me, even if it isn’t a big deal, my immediate reaction is anger. I want to get back at them, and not for any good logical reason. But that won’t actually help anything, it will more likely make things worse. Overcoming evil with good would mean forgiving the person, thinking about why they might have done it, and realizing

There are many similarities between Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Dreams in a Time of War and Elspeth Huxley’s The Flame Trees of Thika. Both of these novels are memoirs, not auto-biographies, as it covers a specific time period in their life. Both Authors talk about their time as children growing up in Africa. Each other represents a group of people that was common during that time. Elspeth’s narrative is about the white settlers’ point of view, while Ngugi’s is the native Africans point of view. Interesting enough, when the authors talks about the other group of people, it always takes a neutral tone. In fact, both authors books are neutral in tone, however there is one thing that is clear both novels, the authors’ mothers had a strong impact on