He promoted vegetarianism to help eliminate the domestication of animals and to assure that animals were not held as slaves. when King Asoka of India created laws to protect animals. Legislation affecting the lives of animals can be traced back to the second century B.C.E. The fact that the resolution of “Shiloh” involves Marty withholding information and lying to his parents at the request of Judd Travers makes it important that adults who offer the book or the movie to children stress this point. The request alone makes it very important for the children to tell their parents. Children should be cautioned that when an adult asks them to keep something secret or to lie to their parents, the adult is usually doing something wrong. Most kids cannot compete in experience or cunning with an adult who tries to induce them to lie to their parents. The risks of lying to parents at the request of another adult are obvious, as demonstrated by the plight of the millions of children who have been sexually abused and then at the demand of the abuser, withhold the information from their parents, permitting the abuse to continue. As a result, Shiloh was attacked by a larger dog and suffered injuries that Judd Travers contended he would never have inflicted.Īs for the last lie that Marty tells, the lie to his parents about why Judd Travers changed his mind and let Marty buy the dog, Marty clearly makes the wrong decision.
In this story, Marty got in over his head because he didn’t have the resources to protect Shiloh during the night. However, when a person lies, he or she takes responsibility for the situation. A good argument can be made that in the circumstances of this story, the only way to protect Shiloh was for Marty to become his master. Specifically, before Marty could justify lying about Shiloh’s whereabouts he had to make sure that the benefit to Shiloh was sufficient to permit an ethical lie and that the only effective way to protect Shiloh was for Marty to keep him. A person in Marty’s position had to make an objective determination that the good to be achieved, without his own interests being considered, justified the lie. In addition, when the lie will benefit the liar, one must be careful of making rationalizations to justify the result desired. Only in extreme circumstances, when the good to be achieved is important and the lie is the only way to secure that good, can an ethical person lie. Benefits can be found in pondering the great value of honesty and the special dangers to children when they lie to parents at the request of another adult.Īs to the value of honesty, the question comes down to whether being honest would result in the sacrifice of a greater good. TWM cannot understand why this award was given to a book whose hero accomplishes his goals by lying.) A second and less important problem is that the story shows mountain people in West Virginia defying the laws concerning hunting and cruelty to animals.Īdults suggesting the book or the movie should take the time to turn the story’s substantial problems with lying into strengths. It is extremely dangerous for children to lie to their parents at the behest of another adult.
One of the lies is made to his parents at the request of an adult. In both, Marty repeatedly rationalizes lying to serve his own interests. There are major problems with the book and the movie. FICTION (SOAPS, DRAMAS, AND REALITY/SURVIVAL SHOW).FILM ADAPTATIONS OF NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, OR PLAYS.
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