Never Let Me Fate

What is the idea of destiny in today’s society? How does it compare to Ancient Greece Society? Today, it can be seen as a minor thing, and people don’t think about it. In Ancient Greece, destiny was seen as a major part of their lives, and they even go to great lengths to fulfill their destiny the gods have set. In Sophocles’ work, Oedipus Rex is described as a loyal king, helping the people of Thebes, but once he loses track of his mission, his arrogance to follow the will of fate brings his downfall.

Everyone is born into this world with a sense of innocence, completely oblivious to the cruelties of the world. However, as humans grow up and reach early- adulthood, they begin to realize the realities of this world, all that is real and all that is, in fact, a figment of the imagination. As people learn that it is truly impossible to stay hidden from the harsh realities of adulthood for their entire life, they also learn that it is impossible to shield others from these truths as well. They learn that although they may not be able to protect themselves from life’s misfortunes, they must perceiver, move forward, and not hold anyone back in their tracks. Just as all humans eventually learn to accept and move past life’s various misfortunes,

Due to the desire for a lasting idealistic society, no one entity will ruin the lives of all in order to satisfy one’s wellbeing. Therefore the child goes on being treated as a low-rate animal, lower than livestock. This cowardly behavior is highly despicable, based on the manner perfection is attained. People of Omelas should be able to throw away the false utopia and ultimately save one blameless soul. Innocent children do not deserve illogical suffering in order to preserve a distorted society. The moral responsibility to society is to allow each person to control his/her own life and retain the guaranteed freedom. This child is forced to be the sacrifice for the society without any prior consent. It is cruel fate that the child is forced to suffer for Omelas. The people who leave relieve themselves of the responsibility, while abandoning the child. Their action of leaving brings no changes to Omelas, thus it remains

Miss Emily stated that “if students were reared in humane, cultivated environments, it was possible for them to be as sensitive and intelligent as any ordinary human being” (261). The clones were raised in an environment to prove their humanity. Ishiguro used the illustration of the Hailsham setting to demonstrate that the environment and the response given while living in that environment is what defines humanity. The love triangle between Ruth, Tommy, and Kathy showed the clones have the ability to love. When Ruth allowed Tommy and Kathy to be united as true loves, it showed self-sacrifice that humans have to make in order to make it through a point in their lives.

First, a person has to accept the change itself. They have to willingly modify their life because in order for a person to change they need to want to change. In the beginning of the story, the pack accepts to adapt to this new life by sending their children to this special school: “Our Parents wanted something better for us; they wanted us to get braces, use towels, be fully bilingual.” (Russell 230). However, once the children left the pack and separate from their siblings, they realize how hard the process will be causing them not to accept the change anymore, but they stay to make sure that they do not disappoint their parents: “We had never wanted to run away so badly in our lives… Could we betray our parents by going back to

Everyone else here does though. They all believe in finding your perfect soulmate. And that this clock, embedded into your wrist, would be the one who determines ‘the one’. When it hits zero, that’s when you meet your soulmate.

The families that would take in these orphan children felt that the “older” children were already set in their ways, they would likely have “bad habits”, and they would eventually be nothing but trouble. No family really

[Anthony Horowitz once said, “Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”] In the novel The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the Walls children had a rough childhood, enduring many tough things like poverty. Rex and Rose Mary Walls wanted to teach their children resilience and self sufficiency. Despite their good intentions, they were very irresponsible and unstable parents. They put their children in danger in many ways which caused them to have a loss of innocence at a young age. The Walls children proved throughout the book that *having a rough childhood and losing innocence at a young age does not determine a person’s future.*

In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the Walls children go on perilous adventures and are given independence from society’s rules and dicipline as a result of their parents’ beliefs. However, they are oftentimes wishing they had the security and comfort offered from a “normal” upbringing. Living a stable, sheltered life with parents that protect and disipline me and a fair chance to comfortably raise a family in the future, it is hard to even comprehend why someone would risk it at an attempt to escape the unwritten laws of civilization. In a world where freedom always comes at a heavy cost and the future of a child is never guaranteed, and in a world where children have easier access to knives and guns than to an opportunity to settle down after a safe and fruitiful life, it is difficult for me to see why a child would not be taught to follow society’s fail-proof blueprint for prosperity.

When we see these children with other people the child may look like normal girls, but we tend to not care and just turn our heads. In the book, a woman named Karen made a note saying “I’m sorry, I could not stay, the teenager wrote. I don’t think anybody knows what it feels like to be a disposable person” (Sher 37). Some people could care less about these children but think of it as if they were your child, brother, sister, family, friend, you would want to put an end to it.

The first thing learned is that poverty is a way of life for these children. Although they know they are poor, it doesn't bother them because everyone there is poor. It's okay to be without when there isn't any competition. An example of this is seen when the children talk of their study areas at home. Only one of them actually have a desk and paper, and the others think nothing of it. Instead they tell her to shut up about it. The children are proud of themselves and of their life.

These children will grow to become illiterate adults; with “no knowledge of their past or hope for the future” all they’ll live for is an “eternal present” filled with poverty, suffering, and misery. In the future these are the individuals who’ll seek out government assistance, with a false belief that they are incapable of succeeding on their own.

The idea about free will and fate is still unsolved and debatable throughout the world. Some claim that humans have their own power to create their own destiny, however, others argue that they are inescapable victims of fate. The novel, Things Fall Apart, portrays the relationship between human’s determination to succeed and his or her own fate by describing Okonkwo as a tragic figure. While Okonkwo believes that he can overcome his fate through his hard work, Chinua Achebe reveals that fate is a powerful, inevitable event in the novel.

In “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” the citizens live in a utopian society, or at least they want Omelas to be a utopian society. If you go in depth of the story, you will realize that Omelas is not so perfect at all, and their surroundings are gilded. Omelas is dystopian that shows the suffering of one for the happiness of others. It is summer time in Omelas, and the city is having a festival. The festival is full of happy people, and everything is perfect. The happiness of the city of Omelas is just a coating for the suffering of a ten-year-old child. The child is locked away in a basement without sunlight, a little bit of food and no happiness at all, and this is all for the town happiness. Many people in this gilded society feel guilty

Most people dream to have a great future, fall in love, get married, have a family, but most importantly have a wonderful life. What if your life had been planned out for you and the sole purpose of your existence was to donate your vital organs? Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, Never Let Me Go is a tragic love story between two human clones that fall in love before they know what love truly is. The clones are raised until adulthood in Hailsham, a boarding school for clones, to later become organ donors. They are trained to become nurses or “carers” to take care of “donors” as they recover after organs have been removed. The clones are involuntary forced to donate all their vital organs until death or until they “complete.” Kathy H. and Tommy are two clones whose love journey began when they were children within the walls of Hailsham. The two friends became close and confided in each other about everything. In time their friendship became into something more; however, Kathy and Tommy would find themselves in a love triangle. Before they moved to the cottages, where they learned to live among normal humans, Ruth, who was Kathy and Tommy’s friend, dated Tommy, but Tommy and Kathy loved each other. Their love would face many obstacles, but their love always found its way back to each other. In the end, with hope to buy their love some time, they find Madame to obtain a deferral but are faced with the devastating truth and would be forced to face their fate.