Kichijiro Betrayal Quotes

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Only those who have experienced a close friend or trusted one disappearing or turning against them know the true feeling of betrayal. One minute, they are by our side. The next, upon the sense of any danger or troublesome situation, they are gone. Most college students know this emotion all too well. Whether it happens in group projects or simply because the other person is taking different classes and no longer has time to spend, the student feels the same way a betrayed person would. Self-interest takes precedence among many of these relationships, which is understandable because humans innately have a fight or flight instinct to guarantee their survival in any precarious situations. In fact, we may have even done this to others. What makes …show more content…

Collegiate life involves dealing with similar, if not the same, types of people and situations their respective characters deal with in the novel. For example, it’s common for people to build up a reputation, just as the fickle Christian Kichijiro did because “it was clear enough: Kichijiro was a Christian who had once apostatized. Eight years before, he and his whole family, all Christians, had been betrayed” (40). Knowing of Kichijiro’s unstable faith as he constantly backstabs Father Rodrigues when he sees a dangerous situation, it can only be assumed that Kichijiro’s family’s demise was brought upon by none other than Kichijiro himself. His unfaithfulness sheds light on people like him encountered in daily lives. It’s true that old habits die hard, but is it even possible for them to die? Kichijiro had not lost his habit of being self-centered and prioritizing himself above all in at least the past eight years, regardless of how much he may have repented each instance of a betrayal. Instead of learning from his mistakes, it appears instead to get easier and easier for him to commit the same mistake

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