This document presents several scenarios involving harm, betrayal, or wrongdoing and asks if the victim would forgive. The scenarios include: 1. A doughnut being stolen from someone's bag by a friend. 2. A friend betraying a personal secret that was shared in confidence. 3. Someone plagiarizing another student's assessment work and falsely accusing them. 4. A driver accidentally hitting and critically injuring a man who was out to buy a newspaper. 5. A friend paralyzing another by playfully pushing them into a shallow pool during a bachelorette party. 6. A former Nazi prison guard who committed atrocities asking for forgiveness from a woman he imprisoned

1. Forgiveness
Scenarios
Could you Forgive?

2. The Doughnut Thief
You've just been to Krispy Kreme and bought yourself a
doughnut to have at lunch later in the day. When you go to
have it, you realise that it’s been taken from your bag by a
person in your group and it’s not the first time. You were
looking forward to it!
Do you forgive them? Yes or No

3. You have told a very personal secret that you are really worried
about but you trust your friend to keep it. However, you are
horrified to find out a couple of days later you hear all your
friends talking about it behind your back. You confront the friend
you told and they are really apologetic but you really hurt and
upset by this broken trust.
Do you forgive them? Yes or No
Broken Trust

4. Stolen Work
You've worked really hard on an assessment and someone
in your class asks if you can send them your Assessment
so they check if they are on the right path. However, they
end up copying all of your work and submitting it as their
own. The teacher see that the work has been plagiarized but
is told by the other student that you were the one the copied
their work. There is no way of proving it was yours in this
scenario.
Do you forgive them? Yes or No

5. Patricia Machin
In 2011, Patricia Machin lost her husband when he set out to buy the
morning paper. Gerrard Machin was doing what he always did, but this
time would not return home. Patricia sensed something was wrong and
went to look for him.
She was greeted by the sight of an ambulance and a man on the ground.
Her husband had been struck down by a driver. He was alive but in a
critical condition. It was confirmed to be an accident.
Do you forgive them? Yes or No

6. Rachelle Friedman Chapman
In 2010, a month before she was going to be married to her fiance, Chris Chapman, a freak
accident left her paralyzed from the chest down. Friedman and some of her friends were
attending Friedman’s bachelorette party. While hanging out by the pool, Friedman’s
girlfriend playfully pushed her into the pool. Tragically, what was meant to be a harmless
prank backfired. Friedman plunged headfirst into the shallow end of the pool, fracturing two
of her vertebrae.
Do you forgive them? Yes or No

7. Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom is a remarkable woman who risked her own life to save the lives of others during the
Holocaust. She worked in her family’s business as a watchmaker. After the Nazi occupation of the
Netherlands, Ten Boom and her family became involved with the Resistance, providing shelter for Jews.
A false wall was built in her bedroom to provide a hiding place for those seeking shelter.
The Gestapo found out and raided the Ten Boom home and the family was arrested. Those who were
hiding in the home at the time were able to avoid detection and escape. Sadly, Ten Boom’s father and
sister died in prison.
Later that same month, Ten Boom narrowly escaped. Shortly after her escape all the women her age
were killed.
While at a church service in Munich, she came face-to-face with one of the former Ravensbrueck prison
guards. Ten Boom had just delivered a message of God’s forgiveness and the former guard, not
recognizing her, asked Ten Boom personally for forgiveness for the atrocities that he had committed.
Do you forgive them? Yes or No

8. Bibliography
http://listverse.com/2013/10/31/10-extraordinary-examples-of-forgiveness/
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