"The Unsinkable Ship"

I was awoken by the pounding on the door, My Father talked to the man at the door with a worried voice he looked at my mother with disbelieving eyes. "The Titanic's been hit" he said. He had said it so quietly i had to strain to hear, but mother had heard she said "How..How could this be?" They had told us the ship was unsinkable..and as a child I couldn't understand why everyone seemed so worried. Mother rushed me out of the room and towards the deck when we got there Mother and I were put into boats along with other women and children but Father.. Where was Father? I asked Mother and she said that Father couldn't come with us and then we were in the water..and I never saw Father again. Mother forgave Captain Smith and the Captain of the other boat.. But I.. I never forgave them. How could I forgive a Captain that kept going even though he'd been warned several times?.. Just to save his own job. I never forgave the Captain of the boat nineteen miles away for ignoring the distress signals that could of saved the lives of many more people..possibly even father.. I still don't see how Mother could forgive those people for the terrible things they had done..because of them she lost her husband and I lost my Father.

Pity

"He sought my pity, but had he any right to pity? Did a man of his kind deserve any pity?"

I think that the dying S.S. Solider deserve pity becaise he know (even if it might be to late) that what he did was wrong. In the book it says "His thoughts were once again centered on himself and he was filled woth self-pity." I think that while yes the man did pity himself because he was dying at such a young age he was truely trying to ask for the jews forgiveness. I also think that the solider was trying to get the pity of someone else so that he could feel as thoigh someone forgave him and could die in peace.