Colton Oct 17th Gentlemen‚ Your verdict In this story Gentlemen your verdict‚ the captain of a submarine‚ L-C Oram‚ is put in a difficult situation which results in him sacrificing 14 of his men including himself‚ to save 5 men with families waiting for them back home. Of course killing people is wrong‚ but if I‚ or anyone else‚ was put into a situation like L-C Oram was‚ then I think it would be okay to…..as bad as that sounds. In situations like these‚ I think there are some exceptions
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Jas Gentlemen‚ Your Verdict Feb.13‚11 There are twenty men trapped at the bottom of the sea in a submarine. Help will not arrive for a week. There is only enough oxygen left for about three days‚ but the oxygen will last five men for a week. What should the captain decide‚ and how? Five men were picked to live and the rest were killed without knowing. Considering all the facts‚ Lieutenant-Commander Oram should be innocent. The men were in the submarine when the explosion went
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“Gentlemen‚ Your Verdict” Michael Bruce 1. From what perspective is the story told? (1 mark) This story is told in limited omniscient third person perspective. This is because the narrating voice enters the minds of most characters‚ excluding the radio telephone scenes. You can only hear Lieutenant Commander Oram’s voice‚ not the character on the other end of the radio. 2. Through which literary device does Michael Bruce tell his story? (1 mark) The literary device used was flashback
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Grade: 10/13 Gentlemen‚ your Verdict This is a story about decisions. The result of this decision was the death of fifteen crew members. A decision made by one person to end the lives of fifteen men to save five. What would you do if you were the lieutenant of a submarine and you had to decide the fate of your crew? I don’t think that I could make the same decision that Lieutenant-Commander Oram made. After the submarine rested on a sandbank‚ about thirty fathoms down‚ it was time to assess the
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Martin Luther King Jr. once said‚ “the moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.” In the short story‚ “Gentlemen Your Verdict”‚ twenty men and their captain become trapped in their submarine after an explosion. Their captain‚ Captain Oram‚ then unjustly sacrifices fifteen of his men to save five others. He takes it upon himself to make a life or death decision for fifteen innocent men. Justice is important to regulating actions and preserving virtue in society. In some cases murder
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The story Gentlemen‚ your Verdict is about whether or not it would be alright for a Captain to sacrifice some of his men to save a few. Although I do agree that his plan was justified‚ I believe that he should have chosen differently as to who should have lived. Lieutenant Captain Oram was justified in his actions because he made a good decision‚ he chose the men with families over the single men‚ and he acted as a strong leader for his men. I believe that Captain Oram had to make a decision
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Compare and Contrast: Always a Motive and Gentlemen‚ Your Verdict Recently I’ve read two very good short stories: Always a Motive (by Dan Ross) and Gentlemen‚ Your Verdict (by Michael Bruce). Always a Motive is about a young man‚ named Joe Manetti‚ who is accused of kidnapping. Gentlemen‚ Your Verdict is about five men who are questioned about the murder of sixteen crewmembers. While both Always a Motive and Gentlemen‚ Your Verdict are written in third person and pull at the readers emotions
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In the short story “Gentlemen‚ your Verdict” written by Michael Bruce‚ Commander Oram makes a decision to save five married men and the other members including himself to sacrifice for them. The question is why does he choose married men? And does he have the right to decide the members who survive? These are some of the questions that arise while reading the story. Similarly‚ “The Lady of the Tiger” written by Frank Stockton and “The Ones who walk away from Omelas” written by Ursula Le Guin make
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The Verdict Deborah Frick DeSales University The Legal Environment of Business AB 272 David B. Schwartz‚ Esquire February 5‚ 2012 “A lawyer‚ as a member of the legal profession‚ is a representative of clients‚ an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.” (Preamble 1. ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. 2004) Every state has its own ethical code of conduct for practicing lawyers‚ which is typically modeled after the
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In “Gentlemen‚ your verdict” by Michael Bruce‚ Lieutenant-Commander Oram should be convicted of murder for taking the lives of fifteen innocent men. Captain Oram was faced in a dilemma where he had to choose to either “condemn [his] whole crew to death or sacrifice fifteen and save five” (4).Choosing whether a person should die or live is a decision no one should make. In this case “a submarine [is] [laid] helpless[ly] at the bottom of the sea [with] ...twenty men-trapped”(1). The radio station reported
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