Final Essay Outline-Tenesaca

Introduction:

-Base of Deontology and Virtue Ethics

-Introduce “A Good Fall” by Ha Jin, and “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri.”

-Thesis: While people a can have Deontology ethics that they follow, there are moments in which one can then act according to Virtue ethics, and vice versa.

-Mention of embodied globalization in the stories.

Body #1:

-“A Good Fall”

-Deontology ethics followed by Ganchin as a monk, followed by his change to how he then follows Virtue ethics after all the horrible moments he endured.

-Moments of stress: not being paid, not having a place to stay, so desperate for food he forgets his diet as a monk, tries to commit suicide knowing his family back home would be devastated but trying to get them off their debt.

-Ganchin had family back home, he was a foreigner and did not have a way to be legal. (Issues with passport.)

Body #2:

-“Interpreter of Maladies”

-Mr. Kapasi first believes that he and Mrs. Das could have a happy ending, following Virtue ethics, and at the end realizes he should follow Deontology ethics, do what he was meant to do, which was to be a tour guide.

-Important moments: Mrs. Das taking an interest in Mr. Kapasi, Mrs. Das offering to mail him a copy of the photo, Mrs. Das revealing that she had an affair and one of her son’s is not her husband’s son, Bobby is attacked by monkeys and his address is lost in the commotion but Mr. Kapasi decides that he is not a part of this family’s story.

-This was supposed to be another quick tour, but things happened to change Mr. Kapasi’s perspectives.

-Conclusion:

-Restatement of thesis: While people a can have Deontology ethics that they follow, there are moments in which one can then act according to Virtue ethics, and vice versa.

-Connection to how this relates to our own lives, those around us in terms of globalization, and ethics that we see in different aspects of our lives.