By Elizabeth A. Mitchell, The Catholic Thing - While I was recently reading The Tale of Troy with my fifth-grade class, a hand shot up from the back of the classroom. The student wanted, desperately, to know, “Who are the good guys?... ”Knowing who was winning did not matter to this young man… In that cry for clarity, I saw once again how the human heart has an innate need to know who the good guys are. It helps to keep us grounded. It strengthens us. We can endure suffering, if we recognize the forces of good, why they fight, and the moral ground on which they stand or fall.