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Deliberate Words Comarison Saboteur And Why I Live At The P.O.

Deliberate Words
Hurting innocent people, by forcing authority, can happen at home or afar, as is shown in
both author Welty's, "Why I Live at the P.O.", and in "Saboteur" by Jin. In, "Saboteur", Jin describes the events leading up to Chiu's landing in jail for a crime the police officers openly commit. Using their badges, they intimate and antagonize Chiu, who was enjoying a cup of tea at an open restaurant, with his new wife. Arresting him, interrogate him and refusing to let him go until he signed a confession, Chiu refuses and stands up against the government bullies. He requests medication for his heart problem and hepatitis, which met with a refusal. The law then abuses an attorney friend who arrives to help Chiu. They give Chiu an ultimatum to sign the confession or his friend would continue to endure their abuse. Chiu wanting to stop the torture of his attorney friend, finally signs the confession. Once released, Chiu, who has been holding in his anger and rage, decides to visit all nearby restaurants, purposely-infecting people with his hepatitis; hoping the officers will catch his disease.
Chiu's revenge made eight-hundred people sick, killed two children and six others. What he accused the law of doing is the same thing he did deliberately. Chiu's events can happen to anyone, anytime or anywhere. Hurting someone out of spite or hatred is morally and ethically wrong. It is not our place to pay back, but we do it anyway.

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As Jin's writing shows the consequences of revenge, Welty's story also shows how this same thing can happen at home. Welty describes the conflict between two sisters who constantly and verbally hurt each other, until one leaves her home and family behind, showing her revenge on her sister and other family members. Stella-Rondo, the younger of the two sisters, recently separated from her husband returns home to her family and the fight between her younger sister, Sister, begins...