We often feel we are in control and that we can do anything. But what is the use when we have power, but do nothing to fix our society. Too often in our society that is what happens. In today’s short story we see just that.
In the beginning this barbaric king has an usual and unjust system of trial. Which is you are guilty until proved innocent. Unlike our modern day justice system which is you are innocent until poved guilty. It is vice versa. The king has a daughter, which he loves alot. So one time, the king’s daughters’s lover is on trial. The daughter has a choice to chose a door with a lion or the door with a beautiful girl which is assumed to have an affair with the guilty man. When the girl has the power to save the life of an innocent person, but decided to not. She had the power, but not the will. That is exactly what happens in our society.
Finally let us look in the example of Theodore Roosevelt. When Theodore Roosevelt was the president of the US, he had power, he did not just say, “who cares?”. He said I am going to do it, and that was what he did. He put into action one of the hardest constructions of the century: the Panama Canal.
We looked at how in the short story, like us, we are the girl, and have the power, but not the will. But in the example of Theodore Roosevelt he had the power AND the will and helped society. Though we may not be able to help our society soo much like Roosevelt. But, we can do our part!