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A. B Guthrie's Story The Bargain

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Every moral situation is different for everyone in a personal way. The experiences an individual has will determine why their mind chooses to make the moral decisions they make. Mr. Baumer, the foreign owner of a business, hired Slade to complete shipment transportations. With Slade's responsibility, he has been able to develop his character as untrustworthy, a thief and the “freighter” as the people of Moon Dance call him. Moon Dance is the town that knows and shows what kind of person he is. In A. B. Guthrie’s story the Bargain, Slade makes consequential choices that ultimately results in his death. A simple yet critical task that Slade does not do is part of repeating history. He will not pay his money due to Mr. Baumer. This is inconsiderate and very much like Slade. Slade’s payment is in the form of a bill; he will not even take the bill. Mr. Baumer is trying to give Slade the incentive to make a payment with the concrete bill. By the way, of course Mr. Baumer is going …show more content…

The journey of these shipment can be two days, a simple passage or twice as long, with bad weather. If the weather is bad and survival becomes the main concern, guess who sent Slade on the job? Baumer did. So some may say that if Slade is not at fault for his death, than Baumer is. It could be an easy attempt to get rid of a person who gives a business a problem by sending them out into a blizzard. Also, Baumer could take advantage of the alcoholic Slade is. Slade was first thought to have froze to death, but really it was Alcohol poisoning from the “Wood Alcohol -- Deadly Poison”(Guthrie 11) Even if Baumer tried to kill Slade with natural causes, Slade should be able to make the judgement call to stop drinking or at least stop stealing. If someone was to truly think Baumer was at fault for the death of the freighter there is too much evidence in the story to prove that Mr. Baumer is not at

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