A lot of the time, you may read two really good books on different topics. What you might not notice is that many books have a similar theme. With the books Shine by Lauren Miracle and Sources of Light by Margaret McMillan this is true. Cat, the main character of Shine, works to bring justice to the person who beat up her friend Patrick, because he was gay. Sam, the main character from Sources of Light, deals with trying to fit in and her moral beliefs after she moved to 1960 Jackson, Mississippi. These two books both have the issue of trust in them.
In Shine, Cat’s issue with trust is that she questions herself. She questions her sense of who she puts faith in. Cat had been raped by her brothers best friend, her brother saw it happening, and he didn’t do anything to stop it. “Several minutes passed, and I started crying. Christian wasn’t going to beat the crap out of Tommy. Christian wasn’t going to do a thing.” pg. 258. Here in the text, it capture the moment in which Cat realizes that her brother, the one who’s the world to her, isn’t going to help her, even when he sees Tommy raping her. I don’t know in what world I wouldn’t run to help my sister if someone was hurting her, and if it was one of my friends I would murder them! Her brother leaves her alone at her most venerable time, which he could have actually changed. I think that Cat does have a reason to question who she trusts, who if there to protect you, if the one who you care about most chooses not to. I think it’s amazing that Cat finally gets over it, I would have been scarred for life. This really shows how strong Cat is.
In Sources of Light, Sam also deals with the issue of trust. Sam is in a relationship with Stone. He’s the rich white boy with the perfect family, or so she thinks. It turns out the Stone’s father is a raging lunatic when it comes to civil rights, he’s all against it and part of a KKK type organization. Stone tells her to trust him, that he isn’t like his father, but she doesn’t know what to think. It would be really hard to believe that anybody who is seen with their father at anti-civil rights events, is not racist. I think that Sam is partly blinded because she really likes Stone. In the text you see Stone yelling at peole who are sitting at lunch counters, arresting people at civil-rights protests and Sam becomes unsure. I think if I were her I wouldn’t trust Stone. You can’t believe what everybody says, sometimes your faced with the facts, whether you like what they look like or not. Sam needs to learn to trust herself, and then she would know if she should believe Stone.
Sam and Cat’s battles both revolve around trusting the ones you love. With both of them, they see some one they love letting them down. Trust is a very tricky thing. It depends on the people you are dealing with, and you really never know the truth. I think trust is the most important virtue, because with trust you can open yourself up to others and be able to count on them. Sometimes you put your trust in the wrong person, it happens. It can result it server damage, like with Cat. I think the only thing you can do is be careful who you trust, and put trust in the ones who you can count on, and do your best to keep the trust of others.
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