Final Essay Outline

Introduction

1. The establishment of ethics
   1. Will be primarily focused on Deontology and Virtue ethics
2. The introduction of A Good Fall by Ha Jin
   1. The characters that will be focused on are Ganchin, Cindy and the restaurant owner
3. Thesis as to how Deontology and Virtue ethics applies to these characters

Body Paragraph One

1) Summary of A Good Fall

2) Focused on Ganchin, since he is the main protagonist

1. Ganchin is a monk who changes towards the end of the story
   1. Deontology, in Ganchin’s case, should be focused on his monk traditions
      1. When Ganchin is offered food by the restaurant owner, the owner apologizes to Ganchin by stating that he forgot that he was a monk and should have given him vegetarian food. Ganchin responses that he can eat seafood.
      2. When Ganchin wanted to commit suicide, Master Zong responds, “Don’t talk about death. We monks must cherish every life. Life is given us only once, and it’s a sin to destroy it”. Ganchin goes on to attempt to commit suicide, only to break his leg and getting Master Zong exposed to the public.
      3. When Ganchin was with Cindy towards the beginning of the story, she mentioned that he should marry a female U.S citizen, in which he retorts that he was a monk and cannot “think of anything like that”. Towards the end of the story, he reconsiders this.

Body Paragraph Two

1. Focused on Cindy and the restaurant owner
   1. How their Virtue ethics shine through
      1. Cindy seems to want to help Ganchin without any repayment because she seems to be infatuated with him. She goes to even hire a lawyer for him to fight Master Zong for the unpaid salary.
      2. Before the attempted suicide, the restaurant owner offers Ganchin advice and a free meal. Despite his relative lack of impact, when compared to Cindy, it felt like a turning point. Ganchin was in his most depressed state in that point in the story, where he had no home to return to and was on the run from Master Zong, and the owner was like that single trickle of light.

Conclusion

1. The restatement of the thesis.
2. Closing statement.