Tom Walker the main character of the story used financial investment to collect money from the people. Tom met a devil in the swamp and he got a lot of money from the devil. The money that the devil gave him was from the treasure that captain Kidd put in the swamp. Tom became a usurer after getting the money. He gave people a lot of money to the people like loan so that they can start their own businesses. Tom made a deal with them whom he gave money. The deal was that the people who borrowed money from Tom, they had to pay him back more than the amount of money. There were a lot of people who couldn’t pay back the money on time, and some people totally couldn’t pay back the money because of Tom’s high interest rate. So Tom started to capture their lands from them. In this way Tom took money and all other wealth that the people had. Tom became more and more greedy about his wealth.
Similarly, Bernie Madoff collected a lot of money from a lot of people by making them believe that they would be paid back their money in a high interest rate if they invested with him. Many people believed him and gave him a lot of money, but he spent almost all the money for himself. He couldn’t pay back the money to some people. While he was taking money from the people, he collected more then 64 billion dollars from them, and when people tried to see their investments, he used a fake screen computer with ponzie scheme software to present a false investment. This way is similar to Tom’s investment in that, they both were greedy, and acted like friends to people, and made them think that they would become rich.
On the other hand, there were many differences between Tom and Bernie. One important different is that Tom was a usurer; he gave people money for his own profit. He landed people money in a high interest, so high that they couldn’t pay back the money. But, Bernie did the opposite of Tom; he collected money from the people, and made them believe that they would be paid back in a high interest. He couldn’t pay back the money to the people because he spent the money for himself.
Another important difference between Tom and Bernie was that Tom became worry about to go to hell in order to do this kind of business. Tom grew old, became a violent churchgoer, started to pray loudly. He felt guilty by himself. Also he started to yell out to the people to go to church. But Bernie Madoff didn’t admit his failure; he hid the truth and lied to the people. He never felt guilty, and he didn’t scare of anything. Despite of a lot of differences, both Tom Walker and Bernie Madoff took the advantages of needy.
In conclusion, Both Bernie madoff and Tom walker are greedy man; they took money from the people in different ways. Tom gave people money, and made a deal with them that they had to return the money with a high interest rate. On the other hand Bernie collected money from the people, and made them believe that they could get back their money with a high interest rate. People trusted them and took the risk, but they didn’t get what they expected. Some people lost everything that they had. All things included, we should aware of these kind of people, and we should never be this kind of people who invested with Bernie, and took money from Tom.
