When someone is described as being evil, we often think of a person who acts cruelly towards others and treats them with no respect. In my opinion people can be born evil. In the nonfictional essay “Escape or Die,” a Somalian pirate named Ali Jabin was born in Somalia. He grew up in a country that has gone through a civil war and hasn’t had a functioning government in over a decade. The country politically is divided in semiautonomous regions ruled by various family clans and militia. Economically the country is poor, but has one of the most profitable businesses in exporting the drug Khat. Growing up in this country is a challenge and is very difficult for young people to stay away from all the dangerous influences. Growing up in Somalia, …show more content…
Jabin is strictly business, he even says, “We only want company money.” He is just doing his job and only wants to get paid. As the negotiations moved at a dreary pace for the Somalian pirates and Jabin, they began to beat the crew in frustration. The essay mentions that Jabin is slow to anger, “Jabin was slower to anger. One day, he called Aliabadi, the bosun into the recreation room, where several guards were seated around a table.” Aliabadi told Jabin that only the captain and owner knew. Jabin accused him of lying and asked him to open all the containers, but said it required docking. A guard slammed his head on the table and pressed a pistol to his head, Jabin took the pistol, said something in Somali, and allowed him to leave. This incident shows Jabin’s …show more content…
“The crew had little reason to trust Jabin, who had tormented them for years, but their options were worse: they believed that the investors would sooner kill them then free them for so little money. Finally, the crew voted unanimously to participate in Jabin’s plan.” The crew says they were tormented by Jabin for years which signifies his evil. Jabin supplied them with supplies to Kumar to help them escape. The crew army-crawled past houses and when they rested they crouched together, trying to look like silhouettes of rocks and bushes. Jabin only followed through for the money and only cares abou t himself. He is selfish. In 2014, Ali Jabin was shot to death in Mogadishu. It remains unclear whether the Albedo investors had him murdered.
Ali Jabin is the opposite of an affable man, he is a truly evil person. He is a selfish man, that only cared about the money for his personal use. His actions were perverse. Near the end of the essay I felt like karma took action against Jabin. He tormented the crew for years and held them captive. When he received an offer of money he took it, then in 2014 he was murdered by what is believed to by the Albedo
The Barbarossa Brothers were once the greatest pirates who ever roamed the sea, they had a fleet of ships so large they outmatched any navy or pirate crew that crossed their path. They had so much treasure that it could fill the whole entire Nile river. But a young captain by the name of L’Olonnais, he was just starting out as a crewman on the ship called the Royal Fortune. While they were passing a small island called The Angel Isles. There was a dark cave that The Barbarossa brothers hide into the attack because it 's right next to a major trade route out of nowhere The Barbarossa brothers came out of the cave and started firing at them.
Evil is often administered consciously, however, sometimes one’s naïveté could lead to the destruction of others. Zimbardo states the following: “Evil is the exercise of power… To intentionally harm people… and to commit crimes against humanity.” In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, some would claim that Tom is considered evil too. Although Tom seems to be “evil” towards the end of the novel since he purposefully prolonged the Jim’s liberation, he is simply a naive child whose imaginations take the best of him.
Through the symbols Applied by Herman Melville’s novel, Moby-Dick to give the novel its full title,tells the tragic story of a failed attempt at vengeance. After traveling to New Bedford,Ishmael an alienated,venturesome man becomes friends with a harpooner named Queequeq in a frightening circumtance because of being practicing cannibalisim and a man who makes a living by selling shriveled ,desiccated heads as a sort of “curio” The story is narrator, Ishmael wants decides to try his hand at a whaling job with Queequeq and see the "watery part of the world. "After a while, Ishmael meets the rest of the vessels’ crew, including Flask,Stubb and first mate Starbuck except the strange Pequod’s,the ship’s captain, Ahab whom doesn’t reveals himself for a big time.
Before Kidd took the job of privateering in the Indian Ocean he was known as a reputable man from a well-known New York family, and was respected for his “honesty and courage” (Morgan 14). Kidd desired an appointment from the King’s navy, but unfortunately unable to receive one; however, he did meet some politicians willing to outfit him with an armed ship to repress pirates in the Indian Ocean. Several investors backed his journey, expecting to receive a large profit when he divvied up his spoils amongst them. Even King William III took a 10% share in exchange for his signature (Zacks 5). However, hunting pirates was a more difficult task than expected, considering the fact that only five European pirates active at the time.
A suitable reference to this would be on page fifty-one, last paragraph when Abul Khaizuran said, “‘Abu Qais will sleep in the lorry with me. I’ll come and sound my horn in
The Pequod’s interaction with the Rachel exemplifies the magnitude of Ahab’s monomania. As soon as Captain Gardiner tells him that they encountered the white whale, Ahab disregards all formal courtesies usually associated with gams, especially when the other captain is a Nantucketer. In addition, Captain Gardiner seeks the Pequod’s help in searching and rescuing his son that was lost in the encounter with the whale. The old Manx sailor suggests that the seal noises may have actually been the shrieks of the Rachel’s lost, drowning crew- making the Pequod seemingly more obligated to help since they may have knowledge pertaining to the time-sensitive circumstances. However, Ahab remains immovable, cold, and distant from the captain’s heart-wrenching
There are billions of people in the world. They all start as small infants, then grow up. But not everyone turns out the same as the next. Some turn out to be truly evil beings. The truth is, many humans have done acts of evil, but no one is born evil.
Ahab’s main goal for going on the whaling ship is to kill the whale, Moby Dick. Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab are both evil characters with many differences.
Throughout the story, Captain Ahab directs the ship into harsher conditions and away from the whale oil profits to instead follow the path of Moby Dick in hopes of getting his kill. Even when the ship’s supplies get low and whale oil depletes, Captain Ahab continues to move forward in finding Moby Dick. The captain’s resentment toward the gargantuan white whale eventually gets him and almost all of his crew killed. His actions prove that revenge can blind one’s sane thoughts and instead make rash decisions that lead to be harmful to
Amir, Baba’s son and the main character throughout The Kite Runner, betrays Hassan many times due to the fact of jealousy of the attention Hassan receives from Baba. First, when Amir tries to justify his actions he shows his motivations behind the betrayal. Amir states, “Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba” (Hosseini 77). Amir craves Baba’s attention so much that
In the novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini tells the story of Amir, a young, Afghan boy who learns about what it means to be redeemed through the experiences he encounters in his life. The idea of redemption becomes a lesson for Amir when he is a witness to the tragic sexual assault of his childhood friend, Hassan. As a bystander in the moment, Amir determines what is more important: saving the life of his friend or running away for the safety of himself. In the end, Amir decides to flee, resulting in Amir having to live with the guilt of leaving Hassan behind to be assaulted. Hosseini shows us how Amir constantly deals with the remorse of the incident, but does not attempt to redeem himself until later in his life when Hassan has died.
Jean Jaques Rousseau was partially correct in his statement that all are born good, however, society creates images of bad people. Man is born evil because of his desire for possession and hunger for power, shown throughout current events and recent news. The absence of guidance shows that man does not need bad influence in order to be bad, but needs good influence to be good. The book Lord of the Flies by William Golding illustrates the characteristics of evil very well. Golding illustrates the chaos on the island through the actions of the boys and their digression from civilization.
Captain Ahab will not only chase the whale unto the eternal damnation of hell itself, but he is determined to take the rest of the crew with him as he asks them to ‘splice hands’ (Melville 179) with him proving their loyalty to him and his mission. This ideology can be seen as the root of the matter in the analysis of this novel as its applications to the worldly realm is significant. The novel displays that a singular obsession of any person in the world can be deemed as their own personal ‘white whale’. Ahab does not once surrender or realise that he is being mad and proceeds with his philosophy behind the mission: ‘All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event – in the living act, the undoubted deed – there, some
Evil is a simple word that we learn at a young age and that we understand is bad. However, our youth and innocence prevents us from knowing the weight the word holds. As our understanding of evil develops, we begin to see evil all around us. Although we hold common societal definitions of evil, each person is bound to view evil slightly different from others. Someone might consider alcoholism evil, while others consider it normal: someone might believe racism is evil, while others believe it is natural.
The theme that Herman Melville expresses between the two characters Captain Ahab and Starbuck in Moby Dick is loyalty. “ Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck’s tears the glue. ‘ Oh, my captain, my captain!-noble heart- go not- go not!” Starbuck knows that Ahab is risking his life by getting off of the Pequod and into one of the smaller boats and out of his loyalty to Ahab he attempts to convince him not to go. Starbuck’s loyalty forced him to cry when he realized that Ahab may die if he goes into the smaller boat.