Justice is to Murder as Christ is to the Atonement
It can be said by the learned that each society has its own belief about the way justice is to be dealt. Hence, justice is said to be served in many similar forms such as: karma, destiny, and, in the Christian world, even an atonement. This thing the Christians call an atonement is symbolic of a savior, or Jesus Christ, taking the eternal blemish of mortal sins upon himself so the baptized, and practiced, Christians are void of being dealt an otherwise infinite damnation of their souls. Christ's sacrifice for the atonement would satisfy the need for an eternal justice system to be activated. In likeness of the short stories, "Killings" by Andre Dubus and "By and By" by Amy Bloom, the need for a final sacrifice to justify murders, or previous sins, is determined by the decisions of Matt Fowler in "Killings” and the Narrator in "By and By" as they decide to individually offer a sacrifice of themselves, as opposed to turning to a system of justice outside of themselves (the government), and are forcing themselves to feel the weight that a savior, such as Jesus Christ, might have felt as they commence to take …show more content…
Analysis through a mythological approach, with application to the crucifixion story of Christ, leads to show that there was a necessity for justice to be dealt to some vessel, or mediated by a savior, and with supervision of a conscious self, in order for the characters in “Killings” and “By and