The story is here: http://www.sta.cathedral.org/lowerschool/form1/Eng1JAVwww/Literature/thebet.pdf
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Please answer 4 of the following questions (in a paragraph each):
- Answer the Banker's question: "Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years?
- Do you agree with the lawyer that "To live anyhow is better than not at all?"
- The lawyer writes in his letter, "The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages, but the same flame burns in them all." What does he mean by this? Is this true?
- In what ways is the lawyer a different man? In what ways is the banker a different man?
- What do you think about Capital Punishment?
- Who, if anyone, ends up learning a lesson? Is it a lesson worth learning? Is either man better off after his experience?
- The story is told from the point of view of the banker. What would be different if it were told from the point of view of the lawyer? Would it even be possible to tell it that way? What would his mind be like?
- What is a life worth living?
- Are you more like the lawyer or the banker?
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ReplyDeleteDo you agree with the lawyer that "To live anyhow is better than not at all??
ReplyDeleteabsolutely yes, because when u live at least you could breath but if you dont you couldnt even breath, you could learn a lot of new things in your life.
Answer the Banker's question: "Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years?
ReplyDeleteI think i am agree with the lawyer because live in anyway is more better than dont live at all, and when you live at the prison at and you will get out of it with a lot of things in your mind. Which mean that when you stay a lone in the prison you could learn a lot of things such as the lower did before he get out of the prison
What do you think about Capital Punishment?
ReplyDeletei dont think that punishment must be by punish the man who make a mistake by death, because when he die he will not going to learn anything but when we punish him by prison he will learn that what he did it was a mistake and then he is not going to do it another time.
ReplyDeleteAre you more like the lawyer or the banker?
I like the lawyer opinion especially when he escape from the prison to approve to the people that he did not agreed to get to the prison for money, but it was for his principles.
1. I think life imprisonment is better than killing someone. Killing a living being is not humanity. If someone does a crime he should be punished and make him realize that it was not his good side and give him a chance to be a better person again.
ReplyDelete2. Yes, I think "To live anyhow is better than not at all" if it comes to life imprisonment and death sentence.
4. The Banker thinks the freedom is the most important thing in the life but the young lawyer thinks that life has more to do just than the freedom.
9.I am like none of these two people. They had a stupid bet which is not possible in my life. I like to live my life with happiness.
2.I agree, because there is nothing more important than life.
ReplyDelete5.I think that the death penalty is too severe, because people have only one life.
8.I think life should do their own,because of some small things up, to make some mistakes, it is not right.
9.I think two people have the right view, on one hand, human life only once, but was sentenced to death also shows that this person to harm the lives of others.