The idea of a “sin” is that it goes against what you are told to do. In christianity, a sin is when you disobey what god calls you to do or what the bible says to do. In the american culture, a sin is going against our constitution or our stated laws. The sin of theft is an all encompassing sin that could be used to describe any sin. If you kill a man, you steal his life; If you lie to him, you steal his right to the truth (Hosseini). All three of the stories don’t portray what you think of when you envision theft, but they envision the hosseini definition from the kite runner. In one they portray the theft of life, in another they show the theft of security. The theft of sin was a major theme in all of these stories either through the classic form of theft or the hosseini definition and each one shows how theft is the only true sin. The story “The Bet” shows theft in more than one way. In the form of tangibly stealing something that someone else owns, and also in the more subtle way of …show more content…
It is the story of a young boy who presumes himself to be extremely lucky and is very accurate when it comes to guessing winners in the horse races. The sin of theft is more deeply imbedded in this story. This boy who is quite young is very impressionable in his young age and the only thing he sees from his parents is the worry of money. From a young age the boy can hear voices in his house that say they need money and there is always more money to be had. The theft in this story is that of this boy’s innocence and his childhood. Children his age should not be worrying about horse bets or even horse races and yet this boy throws himself into madness worrying about these horse races and how much money he has made. This eventually leads to his death where he has a seizure because of his intense focus on trying to find out which horse will win so it could also be argued that his life was stolen from him at a young