Nawabdin

This is a favorite short story of mine because it addresses issues of choice and trust. We see Nawabdin, a dishonest man himself in his cheating of the electric company, get cheated by a man on the side of the road. It brings up issues of honesty and whether there different types of "lying" and whether cheating a major company is any different from cheating a man.

I would guess most of us would not feel bad if we got away with not paying our Verizon phone bill for a month but would feel bad about cheating the deli you get coffee from each morning. What is the difference? Clearly a company like Verizon is a faceless corporation that makes billions of dollars a year while the people that own the deli have the same struggles as you and me.

Here a few links related to the story:


http://may-on-the-short-story.blogspot.com/2009/02/nawabdin-electrician-slumdog.html

This link allows you to listen to the author read the story:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101484912

Second Essay due Wed Feb 23

Prof. O'Connell