Theme Of A Charity Of Charity And The Man In The Well

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In the short story of “A Charity of Charity” by Eudora Welty, a fourteen-year-old girl comes to visit two old women in an assisted living home. The little girl decided that she was going to come because she just wanted to give them a plant as well as receiving points for her club Campfire Girls. Weldy indicates that neither society nor the character Marian know what the true definition of “charity” actually is. In the short story of “The Man in the Well” by Ira Sher, a group of young kids get together and find a man stuck inside of a well. The man in the well asked the kids to go and get some help, but the group of kids chose to ignore the man and not go retrieve help. Instead the kids decided to give him food and keep him in the well while …show more content…

In “A Visit of Charity” there were two main conflicts that dealt with Marian being selfish. When Marian had to do this so-called visit to the home of the elderly, she wasn’t there to help the elderly, instead she was there to help herself receive more points for her club called The Campfire Girls. The only reason she showed up was to help her own cause instead of helping the needy. A little later in the story Marian said at the end of the story that she retrieved her red apple that she had hid in a bush outside, before she came into the home. This shows that Marian is being selfish and stingy about taking her red apple in the home. Marian felt like if she were to take the apple in it would not come back out in full form. In the short story “The Man in the Well” the theme of selfishness is also shown. When the group of young kids first saw the mysterious man, they really didn’t do anything. All they did was have a small conversation with the man. The next day they came back to the well with different kinds of necessities such as food and water. From here they just pretty much treated him like an animal. The theme selfishness comes in when the man asked for help and the group of kids decided to ignore the man’s call for help. In doing so, the kids are showing immaturity and ignorance to helping the needy, in this case the man in the well. At the end of the story the kids decided to just leave the man in the well. After making out conversations with the man, they just showed their immaturity and just left him to suffer. Instead of helping the man, they pretty much entertained themselves by making conversations with

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