"Buffy doesn't want to be the Slayer, but she chooses how to be the Slayer." I thought this was an interesting quote becasue although Buffy can't get rid of her being the vampire slayer, she can choose how well of a job she does of being it. She has control over control over who she kills and who she protects and whether or not she even wants to fulfil her duty as the slayer. Buffy has to have the motivation to be the vampire slayer otherwise there is no point in having one. After watching the first episdoe "Welcome to Hellmouth" I noticed that Buffy accepted the roles as the slayer when she found out that her friends were in trouble. She knew she had no choice but to protect her friends becasue nobody else was capable of stopping the vampires but her. Buffy doesn't want to be the Vampire Slayer but she does want to look out for her friends. This feeling of protection that she had motivated her to go after the vampires and stop them from hurting her friends.

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