Revenge And Justice In Junot Diaz's

News reports often times advertise crimes of despair, which are provoked by different elements of injustice upon citizens who believe their moral beliefs regarding right and wrong have either been compromised or jeopardized. While flipping through the media channels, images of grief fill the screen and some of the worst images happen are the ones where the victim or the victim’s family displays grief-filled heartache and pain. People want nothing but justice, but what if they never find justice or what happens if the justice executed by the system that helps to govern their livelihood does not meet or balance that of the crime committed. If either one of these travesties fall upon the victim or the victim’s family, vengeance would fill the …show more content…
The result for some would invoke vast satisfaction and a sense of peace and accomplishment, while for others, emptiness and bitterness would still engulfs their everyday lives. The parallel between revenge and justice is evident in many cases especially those pertaining to violence. For instance, in Junot Diaz’s essay, The Money, Diaz takes revenge against one of his friends when he realizes that they broke into his parent’s apartment and stole money and other personal belongings (142). Upon finding out that his friend burglarized their home, Diaz took matters into his own hands and retaliated by breaking into his friends home in order to retrieve the items taken (142). While the justice system did not present itself in Diaz’s essay, he still exacted revenge towards the person who committed a crime against him and his family and the reader can comprehend that Diaz received satisfaction from his vengeance