Moral Values

 

What Is Moral Value?

• It refers to the principles of what is right or wrong.

• Most writers write for a social purpose so the good and bad characters they portray give readers the opportunity to reflect on what is right or wrong.

• There is always a lesson or two to learn from those stories.

Moral Values In QWERTYUIOP

• Do not judge a person merely through credentials or qualifications.

• We must be committed and responsible to our vocation or profession.

• We must value our family.

Discussion

Discussion 1

Read the extract below and respond to the question that follows.

      Lucy was silent. Her mother had turned Uncle Bert out once, after a row, shouting that she’d had enough of him. Six weeks later, she had asked him to come back.

      “He looked so lonely, so lost,” she had told Lucy. “All by himself in that horrid little room, with the worn lino and the curtains all shrunk.”

Question: What moral value does Lucy learn from her mother’s treatment of Bert?

Discussion 2

Read the extract below and respond to the question that follows.

      Jobs don’t grow on trees, the principal of the Belmont Secretarial College was fond of saying.

      “Be positive,” Mrs Price told her departing students, as she shook them by the hand in turn. “Go out into the world and win!”

Question: What moral value is conveyed in the above extract?

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