I once went to a party with my grandparents for their neighborhood fundraising event. While my grandparents went off and talked to all of the people who showed up, I would talk to any person who walked up to me. Most people were nice and said hi and asked how I was doing, but there was one man who was very polite and started up and actual conversation with me. He was very nice but when he started to talk to some of the other guests, I walked away a few feet and stood to myself. I was close enough to hear their conversation and the very polite and nice man was talking and a news story of a man who was convicted of murder, he was saying how he would have done the same thing in reference to the murderer. Once he said that everyone that he was talking with made an excuse to …show more content…
When they left he looked back at me, gave me a smile the left. Now this man was very polite when you first talked to him but when you really started a conversation you realized that he is a little immoral to some standards. People are like that in the world but the people who notice it think it is normal because it is common to see in people. Now for some people the opinions of others are immoral even if they are a perfectly polite person. General Zaroff, from Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, is an example of being polite on the outside but immoral on the inside. He welcomes the protagonist into his house and offers him food and shelter but then turns out to hunt humans and starts to hunt the protagonist. The definition of civilized is both the aspect of being polite and acting with correct morals. When going off this knowledge General Zaroff is civilized in the adjective context but, not civilized in the