Samaritan

The novel extract from “Samaritan” by David Corbett describes about a young girl who has been helped by a bandit.  This villain’s heart melted for this eight year old young girl and rescues her. He takes her to a diner and drops her to a woman to spend the night safely. Even though he is a villain he helps the girl. He was being a Good Samaritan in this situation. The Samaritans were people who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel. “Good Samaritan” is a parable told by Jesus and is mentioned in only one of the gospels of the New Testament. According to the Gospel of Luke (10:29–37) a traveler (who may or may not have been a Jew) is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead along the road. First a priest and then a Levite come by, but both avoid the man. Finally, a Samaritan comes by. Samaritans and Jews generally despised each other, but the Samaritan helps the injured man. Likewise in this novel this villain helps the girl. So according to this novel, I feel that there are good habits in a villain like him too.