Pity?....

Karl sought Simon’s pity, but had Karl any right to pity? I feel that Karl had the right to pity because he said he wanted to die with a clear conscience. "Believe me, I would be ready to suffer worse and longer pains if by that means I could bring back the dead, at Dnepropetrovsk." He really did not care who Simon was. He is asking Simon for forgiveness of which he has fought; defenseless men and little children, unprotected women and the elderly. Did a man of his kind deserve anybody's pity? Someone of my stature would forgive Karl of the brutal activities he has committed. “Here was a dying man—a murderer who did not want to be a murderer but who had been made into a murderer by a murderous ideology.” His mother said he was a good boy when he was growing up. All of the sudden, he went to the Hitler Youth Camp. Karl was then bred to eat, sleep, and breathe murder. He could not control the way the Nazi soldiers shaped him.