The Tailor Is Good

The tailor proves to be the “good”/positive person out of the two travelers especially since he shares with his traveling companion, has faith in all that he encounters, and gets a reward for the way he lives his life. The tailor, when he first travels to a town with the shoemaker, gets a job before the shoemaker and, “shared all he got with his comrade” (487). This evidence provides reasoning for the the tailor being good because he shares all he has with his companion despite later evidence proving that the shoemaker does not share with him later or repay his kindness, however, this example also shows that he is good because he does not worry about whether or not his comrade will repay him, but the tailor just shares out of the goodness

The tailor does not bring enough food and begs for bread from the shoemaker, but the shoemaker says, “‘You have always been so merry, now you can see for once what it is to be sad…’” This quote proves the spitefulness the shoemaker is and how this makes him a bad person because earlier when the shoemaker did not have much, the tailor, “shared all he got with his comrade,” but when it came time for the shoemaker to return the help he chose to let the tailor suffer for a while simply because the tailor is always merry and is good-spirited. Once the tailor can no longer stand the shoemaker agrees to give him food but not for free he takes out his right eye, but hunger strikes the tailor again and the shoemaker says he will give him food for his left eye now. “The shoemaker, however, who had driven God out of his heart, took the knife and put out [the tailor’s] left eye” (490). The evidence presented here proves how much of a negative person the shoemaker is because he chooses to take out the eye of the person who has been nothing but kind and shares all he has with him without asking for money or something

The shoemaker becomes weary that the good and kind tailor will seek revenge on him and begins to try and sabotage the tailor;s life so that he can not seek revenge. The shoemaker tells the King that, “‘Lord King, the tailor is an arrogant fellow and has boasted that he will get the gold crown back again which was lost in ancient times’” (492). The shoemaker tries to sabotage the tailor’s life by telling lies to the King and this demonstrates that the shoemaker is the bad one of the two travelers because he adds more hurt to the tailor’s life, since before he took out the tailor’s eyes. The shoemaker shows no regard to the tailor and what he might have to go through, he only cares about himself and trying to protect himself from the revenge he believes the tailor may inflict on him. The shoemaker does this three more time, but each time is foiled by the tailor’s faith and goodness in the creatures that help him avoid the King’s wrath and the shoemaker’s bad deeds. The shoemaker gets a punishment that is parallel to what he gave the tailor for know reason. The tailor says to the shoemaker when the shoemaker takes out his second eye, “‘Do what you will, I will bear what I must, but remember that our Lord God does not always look on passively, and that an hour will come when the evil deed which you have done to me, and which I have not deserved of you,