In The Large Ant by Howard Fast, Mr. Morgan kills a large ant while on a fishing trip. The ant was larger than any ant he has seen before, “fourteen, fifteen inches long.” Mr. Morgan becomes curious about the creature and contacts a museum in hopes to learn more about the ant. When he reaches the museum Fitzgerald says that he “killed it because [Mr. Morgan is] a human being.” Fitzgerald says that in human nature to kill and we can’t change that. I believe that it is in human nature to not always kill but it becomes our one of our first instincts when put into a situation that fears us. When we are in a problem, we face it with the fight or flight mentality. The flight mentality is when we run away from the situation so we don’t need to worry about it. When we choose to fight, we choose to solve the problem. Solving the problem may lead us to talk it out or when we are in a situation that we fear, we may choose to kill it. In The Large Ant Mr. Morgan chooses the fight mentality when he faces his problem. Since the ant scared Mr. Morgan he chooses to kill it because he doesn’t know what else he can do. So, I agree with Fitzgerald that humanity is violent because violence is seen as a quick solution to some of our problems. I don’t agree that we are incapable of changing that because there are other ways to fix our problems that we can see first.
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