Ethics In Linda Pastan's poem "Ethics," the speaker recounts a moral dilemma that her teacher would ask every fall, which has been haunting her for a long time. The question was "if there were a fire in a museum, which would you save, a Rembrandt painting or an old woman who hadn't many years left anyhow?" The narrator tells us through the theme that ethics and moral values can be only learned from the reflection …showed first 75 words of 294 total…

…showed last 75 words of 294 total…the idea of the theme that children cannot help or understand her or anybody of her age. In addition, when the speakers describes the kids in the classroom as "restless on hard chairs" and "caring little for picture or old age" we can picture them in our minds sitting, ready to leav! e the class as soon as possible, unwilling and unable to understand the ethics dilemma or what the speaker is feeling. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**