Devil And Tom Walker Analysis

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Makhdum Qurashei Date: 11/06/2012 American Literature Mr. Jesse Barron Assassination of Trust In this present world there are many consequences for being greedy. For this reason, the story “ Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving is relevant to todays world. In the story, Tom met a devil in the swamp, which gave him a lot of money to start a business. Then tom gave this money to start their own businesses, but Tom made a deal with them, who borrowed money from him, in that they had to pay back more money than they borrowed. Similarly, in the present world a man called Bernie Madoff who started to collect money from the people by telling them they would be paid back their money in a high interest rate. Both Tom Walker and Bernie…show more content…
Many people believed him and gave him a lot of money, but he spent almost all the money for himself. He couldn’t pay back the money to some people. While he was taking money from the people, he collected more then 64 billion dollars from them, and when people tried to see their investments, he used a fake screen computer with ponzie scheme software to present a false investment. This way is similar to Tom’s investment in that, they both were greedy, and acted like friends to people, and made them think that they would become rich. On the other hand, there were many differences between Tom and Bernie. One important different is that Tom was a usurer; he gave people money for his own profit. He landed people money in a high interest, so high that they couldn’t pay back the money. But, Bernie did the opposite of Tom; he collected money from the people, and made them believe that they would be paid back in a high interest. He couldn’t pay back the money to the people because he spent the money for…show more content…
Tom gave people money, and made a deal with them that they had to return the money with a high interest rate. On the other hand Bernie collected money from the people, and made them believe that they could get back their money with a high interest rate. People trusted them and took the risk, but they didn’t get what they expected. Some people lost everything that they had. All things included, we should aware of these kind of people, and we should never be this kind of people who invested with Bernie, and took money from
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