Summary Of The Unforgiving Minute By Craig Mullaney

Disobedience for the most part, is seen as a bad thing. However, in some way disobedience and rebellion can help to bring a favored outcome through a situation. An issue with obeying is that if people obey something blindly it can be problematic for one’s own well-being. For people looking for change in some ways, pushing against the rules is the only way to get what they want. Although to most, disobedience can be viewed as wrong and immoral, in many cases it can be the key one needs to make progress. In The Unforgiving Minute by Craig Mullaney, it shows readers the powers of obedience. Mullaney tells his stories of his education as a soldier and even goes into details of war in Afghanistan. West Point is a tough schooling program to prepare soldiers for war. When Mullaney goes into war he is a changed man, West Point truly shaped him as a person by forcing his obedience.
Mullaney’s obedience forced upon by his West Point training is seen as problematic in the chapter entitled, “The Unforgiving Minute”, where we see O’Neill, a man under Mullaney’s command, die. We see how he reacts to O’Neill’s death in a way different than most, he ends his chapter with “no excuse, sir”. We are shown that his education has pushed him to feel guilt and that West Point

She is able to spread her ideas through writing this article. Sharing how she thinks it would be best for more people to think in the “gray”. She argues that if people were to think this way, and do what feels best for them, even if that means disobeying the rules of society, it would relieve them of a lot of pain. This is what Mullaney is missing by having his own type of “black and white thinking”, it prevents him from forgiving himself. On the other hand, Klein knows what she wants and makes that decision for herself, she does not let anything influence her, even if that means disobeying societal