man is God. The Stranger in the novel says the same thing about God, he says God is cruel because He let the thing happened in his life. As the quotation below
“…Since we can never see the enemy—because if we take this tale to its logical conclusion, our real enemy is God for putting us
through everything we’ve suffered—we vent our frustrations on everything around us. It’s a desire for vengeance that can never be
satisfied, because it’s directed against life itself” Paulo Coelho: 121
“Forgive God Said the Stranger. “Forgive an implacable God who is constantly creating and destroying” Paulo Coelho: 126
God is good. He will not try human above their ability. If because a bad thing happen to human life they did insult and blaming God for what
happend in their life, it is called blasphemy.
4.2.3 Greed
The others bad behavior found in this novel are Greed. Based on the eight principle of moral especially in non-malificence case, greed is bad because it is do
harm the other people. Greed is a selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed
or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions
Greed in the novel done by landowner. Landowner is greedy because he wants to sell cemetary to the tourist with a promise or guarantee that the income of the village
will be better. The landowner do anything to get more and more money no matter how the way to get it.
“maybe no one from the village would, there are tourist desparate to buy a summer home; it would just be a matter of
asking the villagers to keep their mouths shut. It would mean more income for the village and more taxes for the town hall.”
Paulo Coelho:105
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Beside all of the promises, the landowner has his own purpose. He wants to enrich himself by selling the cemetary. As quotation below
“One way or another, we have to save this village,” said the landowner, who was possibly the only one who stood to profit
from Viscos’ demise, sine he was in a position to buy up everything, then sell it on to large industrial company. But
ofcourse he certainly didn’t want to hand over, for a price below market value, lands that might contain buried treasure” Paulo
Coelho: 108
The landowner is the one who agree to do the murdering because he is interested to the gold bars, he can enrich himself with the gold bars. There is no
quotation to this but it can be seen from the respon of the landowner when the society talk about the gold bars.
Greed is bad behavior because sometimes it can drive people to do unethical, immoral, and illegal things in the pursuit of more money such as stealing, hoarding,
plundering, and sometime killing someone to get what they want. Some acts especially by means of violence, trickery, or manipulation of authority are all actions
that may be inspired by greed. The point is whatever you feed and gain it is never enough
4.2.4 Mislead
