In the beginning at the institute, Darrow had his own tribe
of a few boys and girls, and among them all he was loved. He was like a father
to them, but when Darrow executed Titus and became leader of the house. He
never payed much attention to how his army felt about him. He didn’t try to
make them like him, and with his growing population of slaves it cost him
everything. “That is the problem with slaves. They are so willing to find a way
around their duty, and so excited to share secrets.”(pg.289) As a red Darrow
was in some sense a slave of the Golds, and when given the opportunity to be a
gold he did the same thing to the slaves as the Golds did to the reds. Mustang helped
Darrow realize his mistake, and as an attempt to fix this, he decided not to
have slaves. Not having slaves meant that all the other students in the game
would choose him as a leader. In order to fix this Darrow made slaves, until he
felt like he could truly rely on them, but even by doing this he never let them
feel like they were his slave. He made them feel as if he would take a bullet
for anyone of them. This is what he did when he punished himself for Tactus’s
crime. “This is my army. Its evils are mine as much as yours, as much as they
are Tactus’s. Every time any of you commit a crime like this, something
gratuitous and perverse, you will own it and I will own it with you.” A relationship
works both ways, so one just can’t expect from another, like Darrow expected
the slaves to be loyal. In order to expect loyalty it’s necessary to give back as
well. In today’s world many people
expect too much without giving anything. In some ways this relates to me
because there are many things that I just expect to be there, and don’t care
much about, but in fact I should be trying my best to give back. In a
relationship it’s very necessary to be aware of how others feel, and this is
something one should never forget.
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