Courtney Davidson

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Everyone has a choice. What matters, is if we make the right one. In the film Harry Potter And The Order of The Phoenix based on J.K. Rowling’s book, Sirius Black says, “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we act on. That’s who we really are.” It’s clear that Dr. Henry Jekyll from the play, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” And Courtney Davidson who wrote the article “Confessions of a Former Hazer.” Both agree with Sirius Black’s quote. Dr. Jekyll is a good guy that plays by the rules, but has a secret. Jekyll is a well-known scientist who believes that in each human being there is a force of good and bad, which leads to his experiment to try to separate the two. The friendly scientist created a potion that changed him into a …show more content…
Courtney was at a summer camp when showing both sides of her personality. The summer camp had a tradition where seniors tormented juniors, Courtney followed the tradition and got picked on as a junior and couldn’t do anything about it. The following year when she came back as a senior of the group she was the one tormenting the juniors at the camp. Courtney believes that at her years of going to the camp she used both her light and her dark side. Her dark side was showed when she was a senior who thought since she was tormented, it was only fair that they were tormented too. The tormented the girls by spitting food on them and then making them clean it off with their bare hands, yelling at them, and insulting them until they cried. As Courtney looks back on the experience she tormented the girls out of spite, her dark side. As a junior at the camp, the girls looked forward to being the one tormenting instead of being tormented. Looking back on her experience she realized that she became a different person and acted out of anger because she had to go through the tormenting her junior

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