2. The movie shows the shifting of Derek’s character from the outer rings to the inner rings. At first the movie shows that Derek was more focused on his KKK street gang, and everything that gang represented. He invested a lot into this, and risked his life and his family’s life to show the broader community that he was in this street gang. He acted as a hawk towards anyone that was not a white protestant. Being a part of this street gang, his fitness potential as well as his brother’s and his family decreased as he had so much hatred towards others who were not white protestants. After killing two black men which he thought was a morally okay act, Derek had to go to jail, which also affected his fitness potential. Derek killed those two men which were not legally right, but according to Derek’s own beliefs, killing those two men went along with is ethics and morals.

b. Fitness potential comparison: Derek becoming aware of his actions and how it is harming his family shows the shift from the community level to the family level, which shows the theme of family importance. The theme of racism is shown throughout the movie, and one example of how racism can decrease fitness is how Daniel dies at the end. His death shows what his racist thinking affected his and his families life.

All three of our movies deal with individuals who are being exploited, manipulated, or brainwashed into partaking in such acts that diminish them morally and decrease their fitness potential, but increase the fitness-potential of the exploitative character. In some instances, as with Daniel and Vincent, the characters lose their lives. Those who learned their lesson, walked away before it was too late and lived. The exploitative characters in the movies were Marcellus, Lumbergh, and Carmen. These characters were practicing hawk behavior and eventually faced retaliatory action. Marcellus received it in a different way than did Lumbergh and Daniel, but they still shared that “punishment”. There was also a common character in all three movies, the one that tried to convince the character who wanted out, to stay because they themselves were too afraid to move along. Their fate is shown at the end, and it is apparent that they made the wrong choice. Mike and Samir continued to work behind another cubicle, Vincent died, and Daniel also died. In Pulp Fiction Vincent was trying to convince Jules to stay working for Marcellus. In Office Space Michael was trying to convince Peter to continue

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