Morality In The Underground Railroad

To be completely human in a modern, moral standard, a person must exemplify his worth towards others to develop trust between them. This does not mean having a value from a gain in other’s property and labor. This means that to gain their understanding, a person respects any difference of opinion no matter the social status to gain bonds ignoring the fact that others do not think alike. It also means that people should hold morals that do not belittle others and in contrast, encourage the need to work together for the greater good of the situation. By remembering what these mean to readers, characters help portrays the human in someone and thus assert their own way of life to their peers. In Colson Whitehead’s novel, The Underground Railroad, …show more content…
As readers read it to the end, they understand that Whitehead’s idea falls from a story of a slave escape and stories of other characters in the novel. Each time it switches back and forth, readers give a glimpse of a character and what motivates them to act like what happens in the main story. It helps to gives others the needed characterization which makes characters such as Ridgeway and Mabel less one-dimensional as fictional people. It reminds readers that characters also have their own ways of pulling through whatever they feel has meaning in their lives. Whitehead also helps to develop how Cora experience all the pain and frustration after leaving for good. When readers first read about Cora, it became known that Cora felt no intention to have something more in her life. She just accepted what happens with little thought and only reminded herself of the hatred she has for her mother as she believes that Mabel left her for dead. However, after meeting someone like Caesar and witnessing the horrible outcomes that eventually happens to all the slaves, Cora decides to make an endearing decision to escape and take the risk of finding more in the world. Like what Alicia believed, it feels that “Our actions and thoughts are influenced by our environment” (Liu Ren). Every character lives in a similar environment that suppresses and thrives from the social system. Thus, …show more content…
The concept that the National Academy of Sciences mentions in its Methods and Values helps prove the need for peaceful interactions. Basically, the chapter explains that people’s values in a science causes the research related to them prosper and thus make resolutions like finding the cure for an incurable disease. A person’s own interpretation of a subject becomes needed to make new approaches and thus make more results. But with so much different perspectives, there also causes a conflict of interest. People have so much different perspective on topics that it hinders the process of the research. The main point explaining that although it still has no universal solution, the best way to solve this dispute would be to find some middle ground cooperation to progress. Looking back into The Underground Railroad, its unbalanced tendency to discriminate a slave’s being prospered a slave’s need to escape from the immoral society. The National Academy of Sciences tries to assert cooperation. However, this does not contribute to the function of Cora’s world fully. Slaves exist because slaveowners use them as tools and thus belittles slaves as people. Slaves react either by escaping or accepting how life continues for them. With both parties conflicting so much, it reveals to readers how cooperation became non-existent. Since slaveowners rely on