Thursday, 10 December 2009

  • What's Important to You?



    There once lived a business man and his wife in the countryside. Now the husband constantly travels and never takes his wife with him, claiming that she will be a nuisance and get in the way. She has cried and pleaded with him before about not wanting to be left by herself all the time but he doesn't listen, so out of despair and loneliness, she took on a lover.

    One day when the husband announced that he had to go on another weekend business trip, the wife again begged him to take her. He said no and left. She gets upset and goes over the bridge to the other side of town to seek comfort in her lover's arms.

    Two days later, the wife gets ready to go home before her husband returns. As she goes to the bridge, she sees a suspicious looking man standing there with a knife. Scared, she tried to find another way across. She sees the boat man and asked him to please take her across the river. The boat man told her she has to pay the fare.

    The wife didn't have any money on her so she goes back to her lover's house and asks for money to pay the boat man. The lover said "No" because she came here on her own and he never asked her to, so why should he give her money? She goes back to the boatman and begged him to help her out of the goodness of his heart. He wanted to pity her but he had to feed his family as well and said he really couldn't give a free ride when he can take a person paying. Out of desperation, she decides to take a chance and runs across the bridge. The man kills her.

    So out of the 5 characters in this story, who do you think is the guiltiest? List them starting from 1 being the most guilty and 5 being the least. Is it the Husband, the Wife, the Lover, the Assassin, or the Boatman? Depending on who you choose will define what's important to you right now. Answers are posted at my site. Happy Reading!

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