Teddy Island: Is It Ever Justified?

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Some may argue that certain ideals are not to be ever broken because they are the fundamental principles that decent people live by. There are small mentions of such examples in this novel where different characters show how something is unacceptable and cannot be justified. Teddy’s father expresses his concerns about the war between Japan and America. At one point in the letter he says, “Nobody could have been more surprised than me when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Things must have changed a lot since I lived there, that’s all I’ve got to say” (Wiley, 133). This shows that he is both surprised and rattled because he believes that attacking, and killing people who are of no immediate threat to the security of the nation is wrong. Another

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