People all have problems in our life involving family or friends, don’t we? People think life is always an exciting wonderful journey, but the truth is that there will be bumpy roads on your way there. Now think to yourself and try to think of a time where things were just not going your way. And people reveal who they truly are on the inside, you were surprised, right? These stories that I chose will explain what life can consist of. In Shakespeare's Hamlet and Blocking the Transmission of Violence by Alex Kotlowitz, violence can definitely control people's ability to control their fates as seen with Hamlets and Torres’s obsession of violence, how violence leads to even more conflict, and how their violent actions can affect a lot of people.
When talking about the obsession with violence both stories can strongly relate. For example in Hamlet, King Claudius kills former King Hamlet to take over his spot as king.
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As shown, “I thought, Man, I’m going to take care of business,” he told me recently. “That’s how I live. I was going hunting. This is my own blood, my nephew.” (Kotlowitz 1) This explains the fact that Just killing a person does not only affect the person but everyone else that was close to him or her. The form of violence that was done by the gang member could have been controlled. He didn’t need to pull out that gun that night taking an innocent life from the world. He was just minding his own business when someone was just not in a particularly good mood and decided to do something that he wouldn’t be able to fix. As shown in the line, “According to the police, Emilio was walking down a street on Chicago’s South Side when someone shot him in the chest, possibly the culmination of an ongoing dispute.”(Kotlowitz