In the three stories A Vendetta by Guy De Maupassant, Crackling Day

In the three stories A Vendetta by Guy De Maupassant, Crackling Day

by world’s famous novelist Peter Abrahams and The Gold Cadillac written

by Mildred Taylor the writers present different ideas of justice

How writers present different ideas of justice in societies

In the three stories “A Vendetta” by Guy De Maupassant, “Crackling

Day” by world’s famous novelist Peter Abrahams and “The Gold Cadillac”

written by Mildred Taylor the writers present different ideas of

justice in the societies in which their stories are set.

Justice is the concept involving the fair, moral and impartial

treatment of all persons – often seen as the continued effort to do

what is “right.” Justice is a particularly foundational concept within

most systems of “law,” and draws highly upon established and

well-regarded social traditions and values.*

The first story, a very popular novel “A Vendetta” written by the

greatest French short story writer Guy De Maupassant is set in the

Mediterranean Italy – the island Sardinia and its surrounding areas.

The protagonist in the plot is an old woman, widow Saverini, also

referred to as ‘the old mother’. Mother Saverini had a son Antonio who

was one day “treacherously stabbed by Nicolas Ravolati.” The old woman

wanted justice for her only son’s murderer and decided to take

revenge.

In “A Vendetta” justice is achieved by revenge. Woman Saverini faced a

dilemma because she was old and incapable of taking longer journeys

but she promised her son a vendetta. “Your mother always keeps her

word, you know she does.” The author has used the theme of the

“Italian Revenge,” which appears especially in the south part of “the

shoe,” in which the story is set to justify why the mother was so

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... the murderer is killed.

This situation is a reference to the words that Matthew wrote in the

Bible centuries ago – “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.” The murderer

killed a boy but at the end the same situation happened to him – he

got punished for murdering in exactly the same way as he murdered

Antonio Saverini.

In “Crackling Day” both justice and injustice appear. The boy gets

insulted and hit by a guy of the other colour just for being black. He

gets involved in a fight for his and his father’s honour. When he

comes back home he is punished for what he did; I think that the fact

that he fought was well justified because he was deeply cursed and

provoked to start the conflict. At the end justice is shown when the

boy gets presents and apologies from his uncle for the violence, which

was also justified, it could always be worse.

*Source: wikipedia.com