A Good Man:
The misfit in this story is percieved as the one who is finding true justice. Even though, he is a felon and a murderer, the whole point to what he is doing is to understand that people try to be the best they can the moment before they die instead of their whole lives. Not everyone tries to live their lives the best they can, but this story is trying to show us that when people know they are going to die, they try to be the best person. The misfit knows he isn’t a good person but the grandmother thinks she is. The misfit shows us that she could have been the “jesus lover” her whole life instead of when she knew her life was in danger. He dosen’t try to be someone he isn’t, but the grandmother actually is being someone she isn’t right before he kills her. Even though we all want to be the best people we can, we don’t actually try hard enough to do that. Instead of being fake, we need to try and be real our whole lives. This story reminds me of the “SAW” movies. In those movies, jigsaw tries to get people to realize that they haven’t been the kind of people they should have been in life. He tries to make people understand that we are all born with a chance to be good or decent and it just depends on whether we actually are that way instead of just when we are put in horrible situations.
Queer Kids:
Kaufman and Miles are trying to argue that while gay marriage would be nice to have, it’s not the biggest injustice we face in the world. There people all over the world who suffer from hunger, war, poverty and greater injustice while some people are just trying to fight for something as simple as marriage. I personally don’t believe in gay marriage in the sense that the constitution should be change but i do believe that gay couples deserve to have civil unions. I don’t feel this way because I am “homophobic” or anything, I feel like the authors of this blog, in that there are more important issues we should be debating over these days. Instead of having all this campaigning for gay marriage, people can be out there fighting for the people in Darfur or even the people here at home who cannot afford to have food. Eventually one day gay marriage will pass but in the meantime we need to be fighting for issues that direct effect the way human beings are living in a more severe unjust form.
