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Essay / Richard Parker's appeal in "The Hunter"
Although it is not as clearly seen in the story as Parker's principles and expertise, we are given some good examples of how he seems caring about the well-being of others. well-being more than his own. For example, Parker is in the limo with Stegman, he tells Stegman to watch out for children in the street while Stegman is driving. (Stark 37). This brief statement implies that Parker is very concerned about the children's well-being and would never want any harm to come to them. This idea of altruism can be safely implied, since this thought interrupted his attention while he was dealing with a very tense topic. Additionally, we see Parker care about his friends because he puts himself in danger with the cops, defending his friend's father, Delgardo, at the grocery store. Here we have to summarize that Parker has an affinity for other criminals. It's almost as if Parker thinks it would be a mistake not to defend other criminals. In support of this thought, we see that Parker says he doesn't hit (rob) other criminals "because you're on the same side as us (Stark 166). » Finally, we see that Parker seems to believe in being a gentleman towards women, although this seems contradictory to all his other actions towards women. A perfect example of Parker being a gentleman is seen when he attempts to collect the forty-five thousand dollar reward at the