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The Corruption Of Humanity In The Chosen One

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The story “The Chosen One” analyzes Tiger Woods’ struggle in finding the precise balance between the corrupting effects of fame and the retention of humanity. He struggles in the mental battle to push fame’s corruption back and maintain his humanity. The narrator states the Tiger will beat fame “…because of his mind, one that grows more still, more willful, more efficient” (40). If Tiger forces himself to stay away from fame obsession, he can preserve his state of humanity. But if Tiger gets comfortable for even a second “[t]he machine will win because it has no mind” (40). The machine refers to fame’s corrupting effects that Tiger is vulnerable to. Tiger has to search for a way to distract himself from fame so that it is in the back of his
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