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The Revenant can be considered to be is a revenge story of revenge. In the movie , rage drives Glass is at times almost a figure of pure rage and this helps him to survive his ordealimpossible circumstances. This burning desire was something that was based on the real-life story of the hunter who was abandoned by his colleagues in 1823. The Di Caprio character wanted to avenge himself on his two former comrades, Bridges and above all Fitzgerald, who also killed his son before his very eyes. In the movie we see the Revenant, take his revenge upon the man who left him for dead. At the end of the movie, after he handed Fitzgerald over to Arikara warriors, we see Glass, finally die. In reality, the real-life Glass quest for revenge ended in a less dramatic and bloody fashion. Glass did track down those who left him for dead. He forgave Bridges when he caught up with him, on account of his youth.  In the movie, something similar happens. However, he found Fitzgerald but by then he had enlisted in the US army. This meant that he could not kill him, because he feared retribution from, Fitzgerald’s new commanding officer. He would have been hung if he had killed an enlisted man. Another version of the story goes that Fitzgerald was forced to pay 300 dollars to Glass by way of compensation .<ref>Myers, p 78</ref>. It appears that Glass was not happy with this arrangement but seems to have stopped pursuing Fitzgerald. In the movie we see the Revenant dying after he had been avenged. In reality, Glass returned to trapping and hunting. Despite his ordeal, he actually joined another fur-trapping expedition with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. However, two years after his miraculous survival, Glass was killed during a skirmish between some trappers and a band of Native American warriors, probably Arikara.