What Is Peeta Selfish

I realized that the British Americans were unfair to their own country, England. The reason why I am saying this is because, it’s only fair for the British to ask the colonies in the Americas for the tax because they have been receiving financial assistance, troops, warships, weapons, and so on. Not only that, these British colonies that have already settled in the Americas have their own land for farming and livestock, and some of them are small shop owners. Meaning, these colonies in the Americas can finance themselves for war, maybe not much but they can since they sold and trade their goods with the British. I would say that at least they pay gratitude to their motherland so that it will be fair for those people in England that are paying taxes more than they could afford.

Peeta helps Katniss later on in the games after the members of his alliance are killed. They fake their love for each other in order for both of them to survive. Rue shows Katniss how to get rid of the people camped below her. After Katniss gets stung by very dangerous bees she passes out and Rue helps heal the bee stings. Katniss leaves District 12, her home, and travels to the capital. After her training for the Hunger Games is done she is sent into the arena. Characters that try to prevent her from staying alive are the Game Makers. They will try to steer the competitors away from the edge of the arena with bizarre

First I’ll talk about Peeta and Katniss’s feelings for each other. Katniss never knew Peeta, they weren’t even neighbors, and they never talked to each other. For sure Peeta wanted to talk to her but he was to nervous to speak. Since he had a big crush on her ever since he laid eyes on her. Unlike Katniss, she had intention talking to him. Until that one day he gave her a half loaf of bread when it was raining. Otherwise, him getting smacked in the face by his mother, before throwing the loaf of bread into the road.

Philosophers have debated for centuries the question “Are humans are selfish or selfless?” There are two main arguments for debating human nature, ethical egoists and ethical altruists. Ethical egoists believe that “even though we can act in others’ interests because we are concerned for others, we ought always to act in our own interest” (Solomon et al 2012 p. 460). Ethical altruists believe quite the opposite; ethical altruism is the belief that “people ought to act with each other’s interests in mind” (Solomon et al 2012 p. 461). In discussing the four theories, psychological egoism, psychological altruism, ethical egoism, and ethical altruism, with my husband, there was not a clear dividing line for whether humans are selfish or selfless in nature. After much debate, we concluded that humans are born ethical egoists; however, ethical altruists are made through proper training, care, and nurture.

According to Joseph Campbell, “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” Everyone imagines heroes differently. Heroes do not always have to have supernatural abilities. They can simply be regular people who make a difference in someone’s life. Peeta, from the Hunger Games Trilogy, is a hero in his own way. Peeta is just a regular young man until he is forced to go into the arena and fight to the death on live television. Peeta does not know the effect he is going to have. Peeta gave people hope and faith. Peeta does not try to become a hero, but the choices he makes are what led him to be known as a hero.

Despite the fact that human beings are oftentimes reluctant to admit it, it is a fact of life that one of the most fundamental aspects of human nature is self-interest. Selfishness pervades everyday life, no matter what efforts are made to deny and rationalize its existence. In the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, the unique method handling the death of Addie that each character uses exemplifies the inherent selfishness apparent in human nature and outlines the various emotions that accompany the death of a loved one.

“What I need to survive is not Gale’s fire, kindled with rage and hatred, I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad out losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.” - Katniss Everdeen, Mockingjay

In Robert Nye’s book, Unferth is portrayed as an antagonist, a character in a story that is an enemy to the protagonist, because he gets excited about Grendel’s massacres and tries to ruin Beowulf’s reputation and status by lying about him. According to Robert Nye’s book, Unferth says “Aloud, he praised King Hrothgar’s courage. Silently, he drank a toast to the demon Grendel.(pg.13)” This shows that Unferth celebrates Grendel and his killing. Unferth also says “You tried to drown your friend because he was a better swimmer than you!(pg30)”. This shows Unferth is supporting the demon Grendel instead of the hero Beowulf.

Determined. Greedy. Committed. Walter Lee Young selfish in his ways, believing his dream could become reality. Walter is willing to do anything to give his family everything he never had. The liquor business is uncertain for the future. Walter Lee Younger, a young defiant, ambitious man, determined to own a business and provide a better life for his family, learns a difficult lesson about hardships. Walter is positive that the business will be successful, even with the negative energy from his family. After learning these hardships is his dream of being partners with Bobo and Willie in the liquor business worth it?

As a person who loves to help people, I have never understood the individuals who like to be mean for no reason. For example, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' Bob Ewell was rude to everyone in Maycomb, simply because no one said anything about it. The town acted the same way to Boo Radely, they spread rumors and made him seem like a monster to Jem and Scout. It wasn't until Scout finally saw him that she understood how he must have felt about the situation. In a way, people are mean because no one ever told them not to be, but even so, what's the point? Some people are mean for power, for others it's because they need something to hide behind, but all in all, it's because no one tells them not to be.

In the Grizzly Maze book, the author Nick Jans writes about the Timothy Treadwell, who spent and sacrificed his whole life for the bears. Treadwell lived around brown bears in a National Park in Alaska for thirteen seasons. He became a national celebrity in the United States, claiming to defend the bears from poachers and other threats. For many years, he educated people about the bears while protecting them from intruders. One day Treadwell and his companion Amie Huguenard were mauled and eaten by brown bears as they were camping in Alaska’s Katmai National Parks.

Bartel (1976) defines prosocial behaviour as ‘behaviour that intentionally helps or benefits another person’. Batson (1987) defines altruism as ‘helping another person for no reward, and even at some cost to oneself.’ This definition of altruism seemingly depicts the behaviour as selfless, however there is a wealth of research which suggests that this is not the case.

After the confederation, Canada went through numerous progressions; some were positively effective but some were negatively influenced the working-class citizens. Every people in different societal strata have its own way of surviving. Paige Railbmon explains the Aboriginal people’s lives, Bettina Bradbury describes non-wage based workers’ surviving strategies, and Craig Heron introduces the union labors’ lives. In this paper, I analyzed my assessment of these three articles and some evoked questions.

Selfishness is defined as the act of being someone who lacks concern for others, only caring for personal gain. Often, people are selfish due to a lack of empathy, misinformation, or a lack of information. The ability of literature to have us experience different worlds through different perspectives is fairly useful for combating this. In fact, literature can shock us about the idea of selfishness and give us pause and new insights into it, if not necessarily cause us to realize our own lack of selflessness and shock us out of it.

Most of us assume that selfishness is both wrong and unhealthy. But is this true?