Integrity In 'Ooka And The Honest Thief'

The story “Ooka and the Honest Thief” (author unknown) takes place in Japan. A rice merchant has been getting robbed a little rice every day and asks the judge for his help. The judge finds out it is a poor laborer named Gonta. He has no job and needs to feed his family but he promised to return all he has stolen once he gets a job. So when he got a job he did return all that he stole. So in the story, the theme is integrity. The category that justifies the theme would be “quotes" and also the character's action.

First, in the story, Gonta only took the amount that he needed to feed his family even though the judge (who was pretending to be a fellow thief) gave him the whole sack of rice. He said it himself using quotes. "...Ooka