Category: Final Essay Outline

Introduction:

• Introduce the story, “A Good Fall,” by Ha Jin with a brief summary, and the characters being focused on for this essay are Ganchin and Master Zong.

• Introduce the deontology and virtue ethics, and brief description of how deontology applies to Ganchin, and virtue ethics apply to Master Zong.

• Brief description of embodied globalization, and the indications of it in this story.

• Thesis Statement: Ganchin’s deontology ethics has a negative to positive effect on him throughout the story, while Master Zong’s virtue ethics has a positive to negative effect on him.

Body #1

• Brief description of Ganchin.

• Explanation of how deontology applies to Ganchin (primarily from him following the moral principles of traditional monks; his attempt to commit suicide, working in the United States to financially provide for his family back in China, him committing to his monk traditions despite Cindy’s attempts to lure him.)

• Explanation of how embodied globalization applies to Ganchin (his intention of working as a monk in U.S. to send money to his family.)

Body #2

• Brief description of Master Zong.

• Explanation of how virtue ethics applies to Master Zong (doesn’t pay Ganchin the amount that he owes him, took away Ganchin’s visa and tries to take him to the airport to send him back to China).

• Explanation of how embodied globalization applies to Master Zong (hires monks that migrate to the United States, but never pays any of them the amount that he owes them.)

Conclusion

• Restate the thesis, and explanation as to how it’s applied throughout the story.

• Closing statement regarding the characters and their ethics.

Introduction

1. Talk about deontology and virtue ethics and define both terms.
2. Short introduction to the story “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye”.
3. Talk about what characters I will focus on.
4. Also establish my thesis.

Body paragraph 1

1. Summary of the story “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye”.
2. Talk about the main character and what type of ethic they seem to follow.
3. Give proof from the story to support my claim.
4. Give accurate story timeline while supporting my claims.

Body paragraph 2

1. Talk about the second character and how they influence the story and the main character and the choices they have to make.
2. Give proof from the story to support my claim.
3. Give accurate story timeline while supporting my claims.

Body paragraph 3

1. Talk about the third character and how they influence the story and the main character and the choices they have to make.
2. Give proof from the story to support my claim.
3. Give accurate story timeline while supporting my claims.

Body paragraph 4

1. Talk about the fourth character and how they influence the story and the main character and the choices they have to make.
2. Give proof from the story to support my claim.
3. Give accurate story timeline while supporting my claims.

Conclusion paragraph

1. Restate my thesis.
2. Give a summary about everything I wrote.
3. Talk about how the characters influenced the main characters choices and how this supported my thesis and claims.

Introduction

1. Talk about the ethics I will intend to reach
2. Virtue ethics and Deontology Ethics
3. Introduce interpreter of maladies
4. Talk about Mr. Kapasi
5. Thesis of how Deontology and Virtue ethics affect Mr kapasi’s decisions

Body paragraph 1

Introduction:

• “A Good Fall” By Jin
• Deontologist: Ganchin
• Virtue Ethics: Master Zong
• Embodied Globalization: How it applies to Ganchin and Master Zong
• Thesis: How Virtue Ethics and Deontology apply to these two characters

Body I:

• Ganchin: Who is he and what his role is in the story?
• How Deontology applies to Ganchin as being a Monk and the rules he follows that he has learned.
  • Quote from Story regarding:
    • Working to send money home from his family
    • Not wanting to give up his monk traditions as Cindy (his friend) flirts with him while trying to help him
    • Meeting the restaurant owner
    • Trying to commit suicide
• Embodied Globalization: Ganchin moving to the states in search of money to help his family.

Body II:

• Master Zong: Who is he and what is his role in this story?
• How Virtue Ethics applies to Master Zong as he is greedy and only thinks of himself and money.
  • Quote from Story regarding:
    •  Does not pay Ganchin the money he owes him for months he worked for him and has fallen sick.
    • Taking Ganchins Visa so he cannot stay in the states and work anymore
    • Showing up to Ganchin “friends” apartment to take him to the airport
    • Fancy Car and house
• Embodied Globalization: Uses monks that come to the states and promises them payment, a place to stay and food but does not pay them a dime.

Conclusion:

• Restating Thesis
• Closing statement on Ethics and the characters and their characteristics.

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.

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.

Hi class,

Due Wednesday, Dec 8

Post you final essay outline here. The purpose of this assignment is to help students to see the shape of the argument and comparison using ethics. Make sure to read over the assignment details before starting your outline. This is worth 5 extra credit points to be awarded to your participation grade.