Harmon And Dwight Compare And Contrast

Harmon and Dwight
“D.W.I.G.H.T – Determined, Worker, Intense, Good worker, Hard worker, Terrific.” Dwight Schrute is the top salesman at a paper company called Dunder Mifflin. Dwight is always dying for authority and craves any opportunity to impress his manager. He normally boasts about how he is better than all of his coworkers. He hostile to others, but what is comes down to is that he is a kind hearted person who is just socially awkward. Harmon Piatkowski is a freshman at Wissahickon High School. He is your normal stereotypical ninth grade boy. He likes rap music, enjoys watching the NFL, and has a funny personality. He may seem like a stereotypical boy, but in fact he quite unique. Harmon was originally born in Korea, but was put up for adoption and was adopted by his
new mother here in the Unites States.
Since then Harmon has grown up to be an extremely caring person with an everlasting sense of humor. Harmon Piatkowski and Dwight Schrute are similar in terms of selflessness and drive, but have different hobbies.
Harmon and Dwight share the characteristic of selflessness. During a sleepover a friend of Harmon’s broke one of the legs to his couch. When his mom figured out and asked the friend Harmon immediately cut him off and said that he broke it. Because of this he was grounded and had to pay for the broken leg. Harmon took the blame for the broken couch. He could have let his friend get in trouble for breaking it, but he took the blame for it even though he didn’t have anything to do with it. He was concerned about his friend more than himself and didn’t care about the consequences. Another example of Harmon demonstrating the characteristic of
being selfless was during a lunch period. A friend who sat at our lunch table didn’t have any lunch and was asking everyone for some food. Harmon was the last one to be asked, but he gave up half of his lunch to the other person. Harmon cared more about his friends wellbeing than that of his own. Dwight displayed the trait of being selfless multiple times. During one episode. A man was going after one of Dwight’s coworkers to physically hurt him. Dwight stepped in the way of the man and pepper sprayed him. Dwight put his health on the line and protected one of his coworkers from getting hurt. He put his life in-between a violent force to protect a person that you care about. He could have just stood there and done nothing about it. Another example is when Dwight offered to watch Angela’s cats while she was out of town. Angela was going to be forced to hire a cat sitter and instead he said that he would watch them instead of her doing so. Dwight took time out of his workday to offer a coworker something that he didn’t have to do.
Harmon and Dwight both share that drive for results. Harmon exhibited drive when he received 100% on his math homework for the first semester. Harmon faced daily homework assignments that normally take anywhere from a half an hour to an hour. Despite this he still found time in his busy schedule to complete every homework assignment that his teacher gave to him in the first 90 days of school. Harmon also revealed his determination when he was forced to move out of his house because of his parents’ divorce. He had to move from being able to walk to school every day to living in a townhouse fifteen minutes away from school. This was a major life change for him yet Harmon still adapted to having a new house and losing a parent. Dwight also shared this powerful characteristic. The paper company that he works for has consistently shown that Dwight is the best sale representative that the company has to offer. Outdoing almost everyone else in the company in sales. Dwight didn’t just stop after one month, he kept on being the best sales rep for years. He didn’t take his job lightly and was always willing to tackle any other challenge. Dwight also expressed tenacity in an episode his manager asked him for a favor to complete a paper that he had one month to do, but Dwight only had twenty-four hours to do. Dwight finished the paper and got his boss a slight pay raise.
Harmon and Dwight have different hobbies. Harmon plays basketball for Whitpain Recreation association and plays at his neighborhood’s basketball court. Harmon is a more athletically inclined person he likes to play sports that he and his friends can enjoy. He also likes video games. He owns a PS4 and likes to play games them with his friends when he has free time. Dwight on the other hand likes T.V shows like Star Trek and Galactica. Dwight once stated in an episode that he has watched every episode of Galactica over 20 times. Dwight likes to watch the shows that are more inclined for nerds and diehard fans. Dwight also owns a beet farm bed and breakfast. He owns it along with him and his brother. They say that on the weekends he works the farm with his brother and rents it out to couples. Harmon and Dwight both share the defining trait of selflessness through quick thinking, and compassion. They also have the drive for getting things done through school and work. They don’t share their own hobbies however. Harmon is more athletic while Dwight is nerdier. Dwight and Harmon both own the attribute of selflessness along with determination. They separate when it comes to their hobbies. Despite his weirdness it is important to show that just about anyone can be compared with the oddest of oddballs.