A Reaction Paper: The Count of Monte Cristo

The story “The Count of Monte Cristo” revolved around between the rich and the poor people can or cannot do when it comes to influence and power, and the revenge of Edmond Dantes.

Edmond Dantes is a good-hearted and God-fearing person, a sailor who had a bright future ahead at the moment he's imprisoned: he was about to be promoted and to marry the woman he loved so dearly. His life is ruined because of others envy to him especially his friend Fernand Mondego, who betrayed him and and later takes his fiance Mercédès as his own wife. Edmond Dantes was the victim of an unfortunate coincidence, because of lack of education, he doesn’t know how to read and write, thus, he wasn’t able to know what the letter is all about which was then a plan of rebellion by Bonaparte. It tells us how important education is to our lives. It is hard to be uneducated. We need to learn for us to grow and to develop ourselves.

The story is full of hope. As the line “God will give me justice” which Edmond Dantes engraved in the wall on the prison. That hope keeps Edmond Dantes alive. But time comes that Edmund lost his trust to God because he waited for so long but there’s no God who came to save him. He thought that God was never there in those times he needed his companion and was never a God of justice. Hence, he never believed in God as if God never existed. As his priest friend he meet in the prison named Abbé Faria said, God believes in you.´ Abbé Faria who became his teacher, who educate him to read, write, to fight in a duel, to be strong and brave and many more things that made him to be an educated man. This is how Edmond becomes the Count, a man with a brilliant mind, intelligent; with possessions that grant him a new life, and starts his vengeance to those people who betrayed him and suffered him hardships in prison that even lead him to death.

The life story of Edmond Dantes is still happening nowadays though it is very rare. This reminds us that even somehow many hindrances, hardships and problems that may come and that we may encounter everyday. We must learn to stand up, have the will to survive in this kind of world that is full of trials in life and have the strength to hold on and fight for our right for the right to have freedom and  that Edmond Dantes was able to return what he lost, the love of Mercedes and his son Albert. Though he took revenge to the people who betrayed him, he only thought them a lesson that not all the time they are in power, everything has an end. The story also thought us that wrong things are not meant forever. Every bad thing we done to others, it will always come back to us. So we must always do good, live in God’s love so that we have peace in this world.