Good Theif
The Good Thief Essay
In the tale of The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti, an orphan boy goes along a twisting journey which reveals more and more about his inner values. Traditional virtues are introduced and stages in which his character represents are also revealed. People go through certain stages in their approach to morality or moral reasoning, this is called the Lawrence Kohlberg Theory. Another concept he had informed of was culturally universal, “natural development pattern to moral reasoning”. The Good Thief tells a story of a boy named Ren who is adopted by Benjamin, a thief and a grave-digger, accompanied his drunkard companion, Tom. Ren finds himself experiencing many outrageous situations throughout the story and believes Ben can explain some events regarding Rens past. In The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti, Ren’s experience of moral development end up to be Lawrence Kohlberg’s stages two and three. Ren displays a stage two behavior, from this, he shows the reader his actions are to satisfy himself. The stage two of Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theory is the Instrumental Exchange Orientation. This is the concept in which everyone should be treated the same.In this scene Ren takes the ‘wishing rock’ which was thought of to grant the user one wish. “If he couldn’t use the wish, then no one would”(Tinti 18). He was caught by his friends who took the stone away. Ren decides to take the rock back and selfishly throw it down the well, where no one could have it. Ren presents the Kohlberg’s stage two by taking the stone away from his friends and making it so none of them could use it, not even himself, which he was alright with. His mindset was that everyone should be treated the same. Ren also faces this stage when he’s in the bookshop with Benjamin who is trying to sell Ren’s The Lives of the Saints book. “Ren closed his eyes, and instead of going to the door as he was instructed, he walked deliberately into the nearest pile” (Tinti 65). Ren knows that what he was
In the tale of The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti, an orphan boy goes along a twisting journey which reveals more and more about his inner values. Traditional virtues are introduced and stages in which his character represents are also revealed. People go through certain stages in their approach to morality or moral reasoning, this is called the Lawrence Kohlberg Theory. Another concept he had informed of was culturally universal, “natural development pattern to moral reasoning”. The Good Thief tells a story of a boy named Ren who is adopted by Benjamin, a thief and a grave-digger, accompanied his drunkard companion, Tom. Ren finds himself experiencing many outrageous situations throughout the story and believes Ben can explain some events regarding Rens past. In The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti, Ren’s experience of moral development end up to be Lawrence Kohlberg’s stages two and three. Ren displays a stage two behavior, from this, he shows the reader his actions are to satisfy himself. The stage two of Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theory is the Instrumental Exchange Orientation. This is the concept in which everyone should be treated the same.In this scene Ren takes the ‘wishing rock’ which was thought of to grant the user one wish. “If he couldn’t use the wish, then no one would”(Tinti 18). He was caught by his friends who took the stone away. Ren decides to take the rock back and selfishly throw it down the well, where no one could have it. Ren presents the Kohlberg’s stage two by taking the stone away from his friends and making it so none of them could use it, not even himself, which he was alright with. His mindset was that everyone should be treated the same. Ren also faces this stage when he’s in the bookshop with Benjamin who is trying to sell Ren’s The Lives of the Saints book. “Ren closed his eyes, and instead of going to the door as he was instructed, he walked deliberately into the nearest pile” (Tinti 65). Ren knows that what he was