What motivates people to act

One day Helochopter went out to search for food. He was gone for hours but when he got back there were kids crying and a big man with a cigar in his mouth laughing. The one thing that came to mind was that he hurt them badly and I started to ask what was happening to them. Apparently all of the people that lived here weren't aloud to anymore because, there was oil under the houses. This person was just doing this for money and I wanted to stop him but I couldn't. He already had torn down a couple of the old house that he built from scraps from the junkyard. The next thing I now all of us people were being herded out of town and onto trucks to be relocated. That man was cruel to take away someone's home for money and wealth and acted like it was nothing.