What are your thoughts on "luck" or "fate," as this novel portrays it? How much responsibility do you think we have over what happens to us? Which character's attitude about luck vs. diligence do you relate to most in this novel?
Abraham
9/28/2023 09:38:42 pm
Luck is not a real thing but instead something that people believe when good or bad things happen. For example, if someone was driving a car with the windows down and then an important paper flies out the window they would considered this bad luck and example for good luck is if a person just bought something and got extra change that would be considered good luck. but do they believe that when every thing is normal the answer is probably a no. so I believe that luck is a term people use to blame on things that happen whether its good or bad.
Peter Caldwell
9/29/2023 10:34:08 am
We have free will, everything that goes right is either coincidence, gods will, and/or the outcome and rewards of our hard work. I think luck is coincidence. I often use the word luck to say coincidence. but fate is a hard subject, because I really don't know. God could have a fate planned for me but I could never know unless he showed me. I don't really agree with any of their ideas because they all think of luck as some force that can be changed by what they say and do. Such as things like, "don't say this or else you'll jinx it!".
Nathaniel Haan
10/1/2023 04:15:06 pm
I feel like luck is mostly arbitrary. Luck has slight affect on our success in life, but mostly it is our attitudes and diligence that determines how we do in life. There is a line from one of my favorite artists(American aquarium) in a song that says "the harder the work the luckier you get" and I feel like that is very true. The more that you work at something the better more chances and opportunities will arise from that thing. I relate most to Wang Lung's believe that hard work is necessary and needs to be done to be successful.
Hayden Ferris
10/3/2023 10:11:49 am
I feel like fate in not real and that is something happens that is good it is all just luck. I feel like Wang Lung has a lot of luck. because the chances of his uncle being in the group that robs houses and rapes women is very low that is why his house was spared all those years. And it was even more lucky that the robbers listened to him.
William LF
10/3/2023 10:28:06 am
I think that they are interesting, and I like learning about superstitions. But I don't think that the stuff about having a good or evil destiny is true. I think that some people are luckier than others so thay can take great risks with lesser consequences. So maybe the uncle was not as lucky as Wang Lung but he still could have worked alongside luckier people and learned their ways. I think that my luck is like Wang Lungs except I have made better choices with mine.
Fernando Villanueva
10/4/2023 07:23:53 pm
We don’t have much control over what happens to us it’s mostly other people decisions. If people want to make fun of us thats their choice and we can’t do anything about it, if we get treated differently then others thats not our choice. I feel like my luck is like wang lungs, I definitely get lucky sometimes but what i do differently is i dont abuse it as much as he does.
Elijah Trostel
10/5/2023 10:50:40 am
Luck is a strange concept. It is not quite real, but it always seems to pop up. luck is more of a blessing from God than anything else. Fate, on the other hand, is always pre-decided by God since before time itself. we each have a responsibility with our lives, however, and God has given us free will out of his love, so we cannot blame him when things go wrong for us. I think my luck relates mostly to Wang Lung's, my good fortune constantly changes, although it isn't as good as it is bad sometimes. Comments are closed.
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