PLN #2: Good People Doing Bad Things

        If you don’t know something from both perspectives, you could think someone was an awful person for doing something bad. In The Midnight Twins by Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Brynn twins pull a prank on their neighbor Drew. If you were to just watch this prank happen you would just think that these twins are big jerks. But, if you knew the background story, you wouldn’t judge so quickly. The Brynn Twins are considered “good people”. They have good grades, good athletics, they are good at being nice, and they have no criminal record! You could think that they were the opposite of good when they dumped a 20 pound bag of bird seeds onto the roof of their neighbor’s car as he was in the middle of a date. You could also think that Drew is a jerk when he posted an embarrassing picture of a twin all over school. Then again you don’t know that The Brynn twins’ neighbor, Drew, is one of their closest friends! When you think about it this way, you tend to say: “oh well those people are just friends being friends.” They didn’t do a completely bad thing when you know that the prank they pulled was on their best friend! Also the prank was not intended to be hateful! So, I think that good people do considered “bad things” because they know that this “bad thing” that they are doing will not be truly harmful to the other person and that the other person will fully understand. Sometimes, before you judge the fact that someone is a bad person, you have to know the inside and both perspectives of a story.