Today in this essay I am going to state the relationship between the diaries of Samuel Pepys and the values of trustworthiness and thankfulness , but before comparing is very important to state the meaning of these two values. Trustworthiness is the ability to be relied on as honest or truthful and thankfulness is the feeling of expressing gratitud or being appreciative toward something or someone.
Now that those meanings are clear , I am going to write about how I think this values are precent in the story. As we all now the author of the story is Samuel Pepys himself ,he wrote this diary during time of crisis in London.
When Samuel Pepys was born he had everything he needed and more , he was born into a very wealthy family and he never needed anything or had to work for a thing in his life , after he finished college he was immediately sent to London to be the state secretary , he was always a business man and he was always surrounded by money. When I started readying the story I notice that at first I did not see any of these values precent , I did see a little gratitude from Samuel Pepys but always because of things involving social status an example of this is how grateful he was that he was present in the coronation of the new king , but he was never grateful towards the things he had.
There is a part of the story were we can see these values present , this is during the great fire of London and not from Pepys himself , but from the people that lived in the town that were grateful that they survived ,and they shared a lot of trust between all the citizens in the city.
We know that Samuel Pepys is not trustworthy , because even though he was married he always was fooling around with a lot of women , and having continuous affairs. And is pretty clear that you can’t trust a cheater.
By the end of the story Pepys started to go down , all his business were broken , he did not have any money and that is when he started to be grateful of all the things he had and all the people he had around that actually trusted him. But even though he ¨ changed ¨ I still think he is a person that has zero of those two very important values , because a person full of values is always appreciative and humble. And he started to do that in times of need and that is not right.
