Final Essay Outline Raymond Osoria

Introduction: Establish the ethics that will be explained and broken down. The ethics that I will focus on are the ethics of Virtue and Deontology.

Introduce the story “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri.

Give a brief summary of the story and how it ties into thesis.

Thesis: While people can have a belief system that follows the rules of a Deontologist, the story shows us how easily our values can shift to a Virtuous belief system when romance is involved.

Body 1: Introduce the idea of Deontology and Virtue to the story and use scenes to support this claim. This paragraph will focus on the relationship of Mr. Kapasi and Mrs. Das.

Mr. Kapasi was a tour guide for the Das family, he followed his code of conduct to simply do his job as a tour guide. At first, he upheld his duty as a tour guide till Mrs. Das took interest in his other occupation thus pulling Mr. Kapasi from his deontologist mindset into a virtuous one.

Important Scene:

Mrs. Das taking an interest into Mr. Kapasi’s other job as an Interpreter for his local Doctors office, Mrs. Das taking comfort and asking him more and more questions about his other job and why he didn’t seem to value it as much as he should further enticing Mr. Kapasi’s interest.

Body 2: Focused on Mr. Kapasi, Mrs. Das, Bobby, and Mr. Das

This paragraph will focus on the final moments in the story, after Mrs. Das has already confided in Mr. Kapasi about her affair and how one of her children isn’t one of Mr. Das. The ethic of virtue will play an important factor in this paragraph as we realize along with Mr. Kapasi that he was not meant to be a part of the Das family more important a part of Mrs. Das’ life.

Important Scenes: Mrs. Das revealing her affair to Mr. Kapasi, her admitting to her affair, Bobby getting attacked by monkeys, his address being lost within the chaos of Bobby being attacked.

Conclusion: Reenforce the thesis statement, and reconnect how the ethics of Deontology and Virtue fall into the story “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri.