Modern society has become such that an individual’s success is gauged by his yearly income. One no longer feels satisfaction with helping others, curing diseases or being self-sufficient, but rather when the yearly income reaches $50,000. It has been a long-held belief that, as the cliché goes, “money is the root of all evil,” and in order to succeed in the world, one must be ruthless, detached, and live for the sole purpose of increasing …showed first 75 words of 780 total…

…showed last 75 words of 780 total…s – those who are ruthlessly willing to conform to corrupt ideals and are able to achieve financial superiority, and those who adhere to their personal ideals in the face of success, and ultimately fail. Consequently, characters controlled by greed or abstaining from moral impurity, much as modern day society is often characterised, people the world of Solomon Gurskey. The successful must be ruthless to achieve their desires, and the orals are trampled as a result.