Definition Essay On Justice

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What is justice? The definition of justice is “the quality of being just; righteousness, or moral rightness” according to (dictionary.com). We all love to believe in justice and think that we have morals. We all know what justice means but it is hard to tell how everyone else perceives justice a lot differently. It’s not really possible for all of us to have the same morals as everyone else. We have a justice system and people will be judged for their actions, but not everyone will agree since we all have our own views. Since we are humans we are not perfect and because of that we have emotions and sometimes emotions get in the way of moral thinking. Everyone looks at justice differently; the definition of a thief is “a person who steals, …show more content…
So we have our main character Clay Jensen Who receives a package full of tapes. We find out these tapes are from Hannah and they were the last things she made before taking her life. Clay is on a journey because these tapes have thirteen people on them; because of these thirteen people she killed herself. As we go through the story we see some characters and what they go through based on their own actions and by the end story we should expect some justice for Hannah Baker. So the ending is extremely blunt and we don’t get an ending where we read that Bryce or any of the students faced charges or punishments we simple get this “I Waited outside the post office doors. Waiting for them to open so I could mail a shoebox full of audiotapes.” (Asher 284). So after clay does that, he goes back to school and he is just thinking about what he just went through. Maybe that was the point maybe Hannah baker took her life, but maybe the justice she was looking for was simple. That all she wanted was for the students to listen and learn something. The only proof that we truly have is Clay Jensen, because at the end of the story Clay understood his mistake. At the very end Skye is walking away and Clay feels what he felt when Hannah was walking away and this time he was ready. “Skye’s footsteps are growing louder now. And the closer I get to her, the faster I walk, and the lighter I feel. My throat begins to relax. Two steps behind her, I say her name. Skye” (Asher 288). Justice is different for everyone even in this story where emotions are everywhere. In the next story the Kite Runner it emotions are also everywhere, but justice bit more up

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