The Once-Ler Quotes

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.” was said in the Harry Potter series, by J.K Rowling, from the character Professor Dumbledore. This quote is saying that a person can become happy if they allow themselves to. This quote is related to fate because it’s saying you can control your own fate. If you make yourself happy, then your future will be brighter, the light will be turned on, creating a very fortunate fate for yourself. However, if you do not do anything to make yourself happy when you find yourself in the darkest of times, your future will continue to be dark and gloomy, constructing a very mournful fate for yourself; which the character Marley in A Christmas Carol had done

to himself. My feelings towards fate are equivalent to the famous author, Dr. Seuss, he feels that fate can be controlled by yourself. Charles Dickens has a similar view but with a twist, he sees it as you have an impact on your already pre-determined fate. A famous poet and writer that has a completely different view on fate is Edgar Allan Poe. He suggests that fate is already determined and there is nothing you can do to change that. In the end, we all have different interpretations on fate and our happiness, it’s how we choose to express it that really makes us all stand out. These intelligent people decided to express their thoughts through words, a story.
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. .UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.” This quote was taken from The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. In this story, he tells the journey of a man named the Once-ler and how he took over a forest full of life to make a mass production of his product, not caring about the aftermath until the end when it’s too late. The Once-ler tells his story to a boy who has the power to change his mistakes, changing the world and everyone’s fate. Seuss shows his belief of how fate can be handled through his character’s actions. If the Once-ler had realized sooner that he needed to stop cutting down trees, the life in the forest wouldn’t have had to leave. At the end of the story, when the Once-ler was finishing his adventure, he says “You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs.” This mean that if the boy plants that seed, truffula trees will grow and the animals will come back, creating a domino effect. Thus changing fate for the boy, the animals and the world as a

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“..With rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character”. This piece of text was taken from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; A very famous story about a bitter and sinister man named Scrooge, who was visited by three ghosts. Throughout the story, the ghost’s goals is to change the awful man into a better one. Thankfully, by the end of the story, the ghost’s ambitions had been achieved. Charles Dickens was able to create a beautiful story with symbolism for fate. At the beginning of this story, Scrooge was a harsh man with a very sad and unfortunate fate filled with unhappiness and loneliness. As the ghosts visited him, taking him on journeys, Scrooge was starting to began coming face with the question of either accepting love, resulting in a beautiful fate; or having a fate full of regret because he denied love. Charles showed through Scrooge that you have the ability to change your already pre-determined fate by having Scrooge grow a heart and becoming a pleasurable man with a exceptional fate. This is supported with the quote I previously mentioned because it was describing his quick change in character, changing his fate.

“Who dares?” he demanded hoarsely of the courtiers who stood near him -- “who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery?

Seize him and unmask him--that we may know whom we have to hang at sunrise, from the battlements!” This quote was taken from the mysterious story The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe. This story was mainly focused about fate and the ignorance of humanity today. Edgar tells the story about a prince, Prospero, who confines himself in his castle with revellers who are trying to escape the disease that is spreading in their home. However, the castle’s rooms are each a specific color, resembling the phases of a human’s life. The revellers move through the rooms, showing they are aging and becoming closer to the final room which is black, resembling death. At the end of the story, there is a horrendous cloaked figure that symbolizes death, stalking the revellers. After Prospero confronts the mysterious figure, he is slaughtered. “And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.” Soon after Prospero’s ignorant death, the cloaked figure catches up with the revellers, killing them off as well. This storyline written by Poe, shows that he feels that fate cannot be changed, in the end, you will die. His character Prospero and the revelers represented the fact that people believe they can change their fate, escape death, but Poe created a character, the red death, or

the cloaked figure, to show you that no matter what, death will catch up with you, or in this case, the revelers and Prospero.

“The fault dear brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves” This line was pulled from a beautiful piece of literature written by Shakespeare. His character, Cassius, telling his peer that a person’s fate is not determined; the person creates it themselves. Which is a prominent belief between Charles Dickens, Dr. Suess and myself. On the other hand, like I have previously mentioned, Edgar Allan Poe completely disagrees with this interpretation of fate and says that it is resolved for us already without a way to escape it.