I have a pack to protect. In fact, I have a couple packs to protect. One consists of two girls and one boy younger than myself, while the other consists of strangers from different places that have combined to become my family. We have something to protect, whether it be a couple of our own family members or the people we find ourselves in the street with. Or maybe we do not have anything to protect and only pick on those being protected. In all of history we see this happening. If we are those who protect others, our morals and ethics guide us in protecting our packs. The excerpt from American Sniper shows this going on when the younger brother is being bullied and his older brother protects him by beating up the bully. The father explains
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In the scene of American Sniper starting with Kyle’s father saying, “wolves use violence to prey on the weak…”, we understand what wolves do. The wolves are the bullies. The wolf from the excerpt from American Sniper is the boy bullying Chris Kyle’s younger brother. Kyle’s father makes a point that he does not want to raise wolves, for we know that the personality of a wolf is against most of our morals and the actions do not align with the warrior ethos. How wolves treat people lessens our morale as humans. If we placed the wolves in The Warrior Archetype, it would still be considered a bully, below a hero, still not a warrior in his fullness. The wolves, or bullies, do not have the same morals or abide by the same ethics set out a warrior in his fullness. They feel the need to prey on the weak to make themselves feel better. These bullies feel they have power or control over those who seem to be weaker than themselves. They do not feel they have a responsibility to anyone besides themselves. Although the wolves are a certain type of person that no one really wants to deal with, we need them to understand the analogy as an expression of the warrior ethos, and why we have the warrior ethos. This meaning the wolves help us to explain how a warrior also has a responsibility to his enemy (the
In the scene of American Sniper starting with Kyle’s father saying, “wolves use violence to prey on the weak…”, we understand what wolves do. The wolves are the bullies. The wolf from the excerpt from American Sniper is the boy bullying Chris Kyle’s younger brother. Kyle’s father makes a point that he does not want to raise wolves, for we know that the personality of a wolf is against most of our morals and the actions do not align with the warrior ethos. How wolves treat people lessens our morale as humans. If we placed the wolves in The Warrior Archetype, it would still be considered a bully, below a hero, still not a warrior in his fullness. The wolves, or bullies, do not have the same morals or abide by the same ethics set out a warrior in his fullness. They feel the need to prey on the weak to make themselves feel better. These bullies feel they have power or control over those who seem to be weaker than themselves. They do not feel they have a responsibility to anyone besides themselves. Although the wolves are a certain type of person that no one really wants to deal with, we need them to understand the analogy as an expression of the warrior ethos, and why we have the warrior ethos. This meaning the wolves help us to explain how a warrior also has a responsibility to his enemy (the