In the story Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, Jeremy Fink is portrayed as a nerdy, germaphobe and clever 13 year old boy. Jeremy and his best friend, Lizzy, go on a hunt for four keys all over Manhattan when they get a box addressed to Jeremy from his dead father. The keys to the box are missing and he needs to open it by his thirteenth birthday. An example of Jeremy’s nerdiness is “...Lizzy would laugh at me for borrowing the eighth grade textbooks from the library to get a jump on my assignments…” (Mass 1).
In the widely popular novel, Into The Wild, Jon Krakauer justifies Chris McCandless's actions through a developed, in-depth personal narrative. McCandless’s quest into the wilderness encountered the unlucky side of fate when Mccandless was found dead in bus 142 on the Stampede Trail. Krakauer addresses a majority audience that has an unfavorable perception of McCandless, seeing him as one of the “others”, a category of mad adventurers whose suicidal predispositions lead them to their fate in the wild. Using an array of rhetorical strategies, Krakauer explores Mccandless’s journey, proving he was not merely a crazy, arrogant, and ignorant kid. His journey into the wild had good intentions, however sometimes you get the short end of the stick.
In T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the point of view of an indecisive, self-conscious young man is given. He is constantly questioning himself and has a fear of introducing himself to people and into relationships. The author illustrates the difficulties of overcoming self-doubt and insecurities by using personification in order to stretch the boundaries of reality and make the poem more understandable, using similes to create distinct images throughout the poem, and using symbols to connect the speaker’s thoughts together in one piece, all conveying the damage one’s mind can cause to their own personal image. Eliot begins by deploying personification in order to further the reader’s understanding of the poem and convey the speaker’s perspective of life around him. Specifically, the speaker uses personification whenever he personifies the yellow fog as a cat-like creature.
Fate is just a way to be rude to someone with a reasoning behind it. The family feud is also responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Juliet struggles with knowing the difference between loving Romeo and that he is an enemy to her family.
It controlled every event in their lives, from the beginning of their families’ ancient feud, to when they met and when they died. The story of Romeo and Juliet had long before been written by fate ever since the start of the dispute between the Capulets and Montagues. Had it not been for this feud, the couple would not have been forced to make such drastic choices to end their lives just so they could be together. This meant anything, even killing themselves. For them to spot each other from across the room in a place where Romeo would normally have been forbidden, is concrete proof that fate was in full command.
Fate Within the Stars “Fate: Is it written in the stars from the moment we are born? Or is it a bendable thing that we can shape with our own hands?” (Marsh, synopsis) A question that is constantly debated in literature, and what many believe is inevitable and that our future isn’t a choice. Romeo and Juliet, a Shakespeare play that is visually shown in Luhrmann's film and Kathrine Marsh’s novel, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars both have characters that constantly question or address the theme of fate and destiny which causes them to act rashly.
The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is the tale of two rival families, the Montague and the Capulet. The son of the Montague family is Romeo and the daughter of the Capulet of Juliet. The two meet at a party hosted by the Capulet family and eventually fall in love. Romeo and Juliet agree to get married the following day, but the Capulet king is arranging for Juliet to get married to a kinsman named Paris. In order to prevent this, Friar Laurence gives Juliet a sleeping potion to make it seem like she had died.
I believe superstitions are ways to give people hope in times where it is needed. In many times in my life i had relied on a superstition to clear myself of doubt. Cause when one often has a better alternative than a negative
(Lawrence, 1933, p. 310). When you are lucky, this does not mean that people are fortunate economically. The chance of luck is to let things flow without imposing control over them and the situation. In The Rocking-Horse Winner, Paul 's mother gives the impression that to believe in luck is to have money in abundance, and when you do not have money, it is because you do not have
Fate is something people do not like to mess with because fate backfires all the time. The similar thing happens in the Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare uses prophets, omens, and natural phenomenon to inform the audience and the character about the future, yet some characters ignore it and eventually meet their death. The whole play is based on fate; some characters are controlled by their fate, and some characters control their own fate, but some characters know their fate. Caesar and Brutus are controlled by their fate because of the poor decision they made in the past.
Fate can be seen as the cause of many occurrences in life, but free will is what allows many situations to develop. A common example of fate is love. “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving” (122) Love is a feeling that most of one’s regards are not directed by choice, but by chance. The choices of those who
Though, there are many defining moments in my life that have shaped the person I have become. One good example would be my deciding to switch schools at the end of sixth grade, thus expanding the range of people I knew, as well as severely altering my outlook on my hometown. The beginner’s luck I’ve had in my life has been slim, and I find that I have always had to work very hard to become better at things, regardless of the fact that the universe was supposedly trying to help me, though I do know that I have always been good at reading. I remember figuring out how to read before the time I was three, first beginning with The Very Hungry Caterpillar, then moving on to the entirety of the Harry Potter Series. I’m not sure if this fully would count as “luck” perse, though I am very grateful to have learned how to read at the time I did.
Fated or not fated? That’s the burning question that’s been around for centuries. Originating in ancient Greece, everyone had a general consensus that they were not in control of their own life. The Iliad by Homer and Oedipus the King by Sophocles both involve this debated question. These two works of literature appear very similar regarding their protagonists and their standard beliefs of Greek mythology; however, they actually are very different regarding the important topic of fate.
To answer this question better than just an opinion, I had to look up the word “luck” in dictionary and analyze it further. Below is its definition according to Merriam-Webster.com, a creditable dictionary online used by billions of people worldwide. Luck (noun): the things that happen to a person because of chance; the accidental way things happen without being planned If a thing that happen to a person only by chance, then how could that person make it to happen?
Fate, by definition, is the universal principle by which the order of things is seemingly prescribed. (Webster) Essentially, fate is events that are inevitable that we have no power to change. It is debatable that fate exists among everyone; however, humans are subject to making their own choices- free will. No matter what choices people make, they do not change our fate.
