Friday's Class

This past week's thought and writing class was quite the learning experience. We learned about certain methods of storytelling and characterization through a movie called "Carrie." In the movie, Carrie is a socially awkward misfit that is tortured by all the "normal" children. The movie is quite thought provoking because it forces us to choose the lesser of evils. What the kids did to Carrie was certainly unjust, but what Carrie did to all those kids at the prom may have been more unjust. Was it? Would she have done it had those kids not committed such an injustice in the first place? Or maybe the mom is the ultimate wrongdoer. Had she not raised Carrie to be such a recluse and out of touch with the outer world, maybe Carrie would not have reacted in such a way. But were the mom's intentions good? If they were, does it matter? An unjust act is an unjust act, independent of intentions. (Some people see murder as justified, but does that make it so?)