Leadership isn’t something your born with, you have to develop as a leader and or become one in stressful situations. The Army defines leadership as influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation, while operating to accomplish the mission and improve the organization. Being a leader also doesn’t mean you have to be the biggest guy or gal, it’s the one that steps up when things are chaotic and gets the job done. In How to Train your Dragon there are many examples of leadership throughout the story. The main characters that demonstrate leadership are Hiccup, Toothless, and Stoick. How to Train Your Dragon is centered around a teenage Viking named Hiccup , who lives on the island of Berk with the rest of his tribe. Over the…show more content… However, he is very small for a Viking his age, can hardly lift and use traditional Viking weapons, and has a tendency to cause accidents. His father Stoick the Vast, who is also chief of the tribe, tries to keep Hiccup indoor as often as possible. Due to the fact that he lost his wife to dragons as well when Hiccup was young.
During one particular attack on the village, Hiccup decides to prove himself as a Viking and capture a dragon using his own methods rather than standard Viking brutality. Using a Crossbow netting system, Hiccup is overjoyed when he hits a dragon in mid-air, thinking it's the rare and dangerous Night Fury. Having not paid attention to in the chaos, no one else in the village believes him because no one ever even saw a Night…show more content… The dragon's attitude, on guard after spotting his belt knife, greatly improves after Hiccup tosses it away in the cove pool to prove his intentions. It cautiously takes the offering of fish using its retractable teeth and regurgitates some of it to share with Hiccup. To stay on good terms, Hiccup takes a bite of the raw fish covered with dragon's drool, and is forced to swallow with some disgust as the dragon watches expectantly, and is surprised to see the dragon attempt to imitate a smile. Hiccup then tries to touch the dragon multiple times. On the third time hiccup closes his eyes and places his hand out with his palm out to let the dragon decide. The dragon presses its nose into it. Hiccup continues Dragon Training along and continues to prove he is unable to accomplish even the simplest tasks necessary to fight dragons. One night after such a battle, Hiccup learns from Gobber a dragon without its wings can't fly, explaining why the Night Fury can't leave the cove. Hiccup attempts to get the Night Fury, which he names "Toothless" after the dragon's retractable teeth, to fly again through the use of an artificial tail fin. It soon becomes clear after a test run the design needs improvements and Toothless can't fly on his own. Through testing new versions of the fin, Hiccup learns things about dragons from experiences with
