Cookie Ethos

The Ingrate the Thief Ethos
The Cookie Thief, whose author is unknown, is a poem that starts out with a woman who buys a bag of cookies while she is waiting for her flight. While she is sitting reading a book, she watches a man beside her grab a cookie or two from the bag on the floor. As time ticks by, she watches the cookie thief diminish her cookie stock. The woman can not believe that he would do such a thing and thinks to herself how rude and selfish he is. Finally, when the last cookie is left, the thief picks it up, breaks it in two and with a grin hands her half. The woman is appalled at the thief’s candor and walks to her gate when her flight is called. When she sits down in her seat, she reaches into her bag and finds her own bag of cookies. She then realizes that the other bag was his and he had tried to share. She was the rude one; the ingrate, the thief. By using the example of the woman and the const...