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Trust In On The Landlady And On The Sidewalk Bleeding

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“Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair. - Anonymous” If you have ever been stranded in isolation, left alone at the mercy of your own thoughts, then you too have suffered through a challenge that resulted from a lack of trust. It is imperative for humanity to have trust - for, without it, we would simply descend into insanity. In the short stories “On the Sidewalk Bleeding”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Landlady” and my personal life, individuals were tasked with uncovering the key-role that trust plays in overcoming challenges. All the more-while, suffering through varying degrees of unique hardships.

The text “On the Sidewalk Bleeding”, revealed a form of challenges resulting from a specific genre of trust, …show more content…

For most individuals, trusting others is often times far more difficult than any of the previous forms involving trust. This is because of how fragile our trust is, and we are painfully aware of the thin line we walk upon. In some scenarios, people are simply too willing to trust, which is unfortunate, such as in the case of Billy Weaver; a town-hood boy who subjected himself to a terrible fate. For it was his own mindset, that continually failed to alert him of the perilous vibes emanating from his hostess (The Landlady). He was simply too willing to trust the old-lady, thus creating a web of challenges for Billy to face. In further support of this occurrence, we find out Billy was actually aware of his dire situation. This occurred when he uncovered the secret residing within the landlady’s pets - they were murdered and preserved, nevertheless, Billy denied the omen, and chose to remain present in the landlady’s trance, instead of simply walking away. Such examples are prime demonstrations of what may occur by your trust failing in those who surround you. After all, in each scenario, the protagonist directly chooses to put blind trust in the landlady by assuming she is innocent, evidently such efforts were not rewarding. Billy’s legacy captures the influence that trust has in our lives, and how our trust is not welcomed everywhere we assign it. Perhaps if Billy hadn’t blindly gifted his trust, then he would have lived on in the

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