Do People Cause Moral And Ethical Change In Arrow

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Arrow follows the story of a young adult called Oliver Queen who is the son of a multi billionaire. Oliver is stranded on an island called Lian yu for 5 years when a boating trip goes horrible wrong. The boat was tampered with and only Oliver, his father Robert and one of the crew make it onto the life raft; the rest of the crew and Oliver’s friend Sarah Lance went down with the boat. Oliver was compelled by his fathers dying wish so he made the promise to one day, right his father’s wrongs. But first he had to survive the island and make it home to Starling City. 5 years later he returns home, but not as Oliver Queen. He was not the spoiled rich kid who disappeared at sea. His time on the island had forged him into a weapon to punish the wicked and corrupt in the city. …show more content…
Soon he began to realise that the threat to Starling city was bigger than he thought. Many events and people caused moral and ethical change in Oliver and as soon as he was back to Starling City he was kidnapped by masked men wanting to find out if Robert Queen made it to the island and told Oliver anything, Oliver answers by saying “he told me I’m going to kill you”. His assailants were to fist people to find out that the time on the island changed him, but he couldn’t allow any of them to know his secret. Robert left Oliver with a list of names of the people who had done wrong by the city and Oliver builds himself a headquarters in his father’s old steel factory and begins work repaying them for their

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