Esme's thoughts on the cruise ship sinking

The news story I have chosen is about the cruise ship that sank in Italy. It had thousands of people on, but luckily they have only discovered 11 of these people dead so far in total. However they are still searching for people who are yet still missing. The news at the moment has been talking about the fact that the captain – ‘Captain Coward’ went and got rescued and left the others in the cruise liner to sort out surviving for themselves. He has now said that he accidently slipped and fell into one of the safety boats not on purpose. His duty in this case was to stay on the cruise liner and make sure that everybody else was brought to safety before he was. But he did not do this, he was selfish and only thought about himself and didn’t care about anybody else’s life even though that was his job and priority.

This is like to the story in the Bible about Jesus and his Disciples. One of Jesus’ Disciples, Judas, betrays Jesus and leaves him to suffer on his own. In this situation the captain of the cruise ship abandons the passengers and staff on the ship and leaves them to their own fate while saving his own life. In this situation that the captain was in, I think that Jesus would have stayed and made sure everybody was brought to safety and happy and cared for before he even thought of saving his own life. He would think always about others before himself. The captain didn’t, and he went and saved himself before the passengers. This is why the captain, now that he has done this, is getting grief about how he is a coward and should have saved other’s lives before his own.

In the past people would have put other’s lives before theirs in this situation, especially the crew on the ship. This just shows you how much time changes things and how much we have lost respect for each other. We still do have respect for each other, but nowhere near as much as before and what we should have.