Social Justice Essay
Have a Little Faith Paper
The theme of social justice is rather apparent in Have a Little Faith and Crash. Social justice is defined as applying an abstract idea of equality on a social scale. It is shown with the changes that go on passim the plots of these works. They teach us about our world and where we as a society still need to achieve. Social justice is a way of life that even today is still needed to be worked on to ever get close to being in a state of “perfection.” In Have a Little Faith, social justice gradually improved throughout its storyline. There was one section in the book where a Catholic priest of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church and a member of Reb's congregation, a German immigrant named Gunther Dreyfus, got into an argument. The argument was about parking on Easter Sunday. To sum it up, the priest was trying to have enough parking spaces for his community while at the same time Gunther was trying to celebrate a Jewish “High Holiday” and use the same parking lot. The argument led to a racist comment referring to World War II. The priest said “they didn't exterminate enough of you” and Gunther took huge offense to it. He told Reb about the incident who called up the Catholic archbishop who got the priest to confess what he had done. By then end, the priest and Reb, the rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom, ended up walking out as friends after settling the controversy and everyone was in shock. The question here is why everyone was in shock. Why can they not meet up in public and be companions? They are both made in God's image and likeness. They are both human. What is so different about them besides for their beliefs? It is clear that social justice took a turn for the better in this situation and proved the common man wrong; that everyone is equal and should not be alienated by society. (pages 69-71, “A Little More History”) In Crash, social justice occurs in many different scenes. One example is with two black guys. They, in the
The theme of social justice is rather apparent in Have a Little Faith and Crash. Social justice is defined as applying an abstract idea of equality on a social scale. It is shown with the changes that go on passim the plots of these works. They teach us about our world and where we as a society still need to achieve. Social justice is a way of life that even today is still needed to be worked on to ever get close to being in a state of “perfection.” In Have a Little Faith, social justice gradually improved throughout its storyline. There was one section in the book where a Catholic priest of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church and a member of Reb's congregation, a German immigrant named Gunther Dreyfus, got into an argument. The argument was about parking on Easter Sunday. To sum it up, the priest was trying to have enough parking spaces for his community while at the same time Gunther was trying to celebrate a Jewish “High Holiday” and use the same parking lot. The argument led to a racist comment referring to World War II. The priest said “they didn't exterminate enough of you” and Gunther took huge offense to it. He told Reb about the incident who called up the Catholic archbishop who got the priest to confess what he had done. By then end, the priest and Reb, the rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom, ended up walking out as friends after settling the controversy and everyone was in shock. The question here is why everyone was in shock. Why can they not meet up in public and be companions? They are both made in God's image and likeness. They are both human. What is so different about them besides for their beliefs? It is clear that social justice took a turn for the better in this situation and proved the common man wrong; that everyone is equal and should not be alienated by society. (pages 69-71, “A Little More History”) In Crash, social justice occurs in many different scenes. One example is with two black guys. They, in the