Chapter 5-8 Discussion Questions

David tries to convince Laurie to forget the events that took place in Nazi Germany, “forget about it. It happened and the world learned its lesson. It’ll never happen again.” Do you agree?  Should we try to forget evil events, and trust in the goodness of human nature?  Is evil an outside force, or are we all capable of evil acts?

I disagree with what he is saying but I don’t think we should dwell on it all the time.  We need to be aware of the inhumanity of the human race. If we forget it completely something that cruel could happen again.  We need to learn about what happened but then put it aside and focus on what’s happening now, because it’s no use dwelling on something we can never change.

I think we should remember the evil events that have happened in our past so we can learn about them and their causes.  We can’t trust in the goodness of human nature because sometimes goodness is put down by power.  Goodness isn’t in everyone and is sometimes less important than power, money and greed.

I think that evil is something that is in all of us and something we are all capable of.  Everyone has something inside of them that keeps that evil from showing, but sometimes there is something we want or something we want to do and that will push aside the goodness and the evil comes out.  For example if a little girl has a doll and another girl wants it, her evil will come out and get the doll. If one ruler wants more land, his evil will come out and take land from someone else.  We are all capable of evil acts, because we control most everything that happens in our life.

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