Fate vs Free Will Planning
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Fate vs Free Will Planning
The Last Signal
At 6:17 pm, a storm knocked out the lighthouse beacon. Mara, the new keeper, heard the harbour radio crackle: a fishing boat was still beyond the reef. Her grandfather had warned her never to climb the tower during a storm. Years earlier, he had slipped on its stairs and broken his leg. “Some dangers are written into a place,” he always said. Mara looked at the dark sea. She could wait for the backup generator, which might take twenty minutes to restart, or climb the tower and light the emergency lamp by hand. She remembered the boat’s captain telling her that the crew would be home for dinner. Then she noticed the generator’s red warning light: its fuel line had come loose. Mara took the emergency lamp and started up the stairs. Halfway up, the wind slammed a shutter open. She nearly turned back. Instead, she tied the shutter closed with her scarf and kept climbing. At the top, her hands shook as she lit the lamp. The beam swept across the water. A minute later, the radio crackled again. “We see you,” said the captain. “We’re turning for the safe channel.” Mara watched the boat’s lights change direction. The storm had not chosen for her. But she wondered whether the warning, the loose fuel line and the boat’s timing had pushed her towards a choice she was always going to make.
Read closely
Use the story above for Questions 1–6. For Questions 7–10, plan an alternative version of a key decision.
- Wait for the generator or climb the tower and light the emergency lamp herself.
- Leave the lighthouse or radio the boat to return to shore.
- Repair the fuel line or ask her grandfather to climb the tower.
- Light the lamp now or wait until the storm has passed.
- She is making a deliberate choice despite fear.
- She believes the storm has no real danger.
- She is following an order from her grandfather.
- She knows exactly how the story will end.
- Personification
- Alliteration
- Onomatopoeia
- Rhyme
Plan your own version
You can change the decision, the outcome or the narrator’s perspective. Keep the conflict believable and make the fate-versus-free-will idea clear through the character’s actions and the consequences.
- Mara discovers the fuel line has come loose.
- Mara nearly turns back when the shutter flies open.
- Mara lights the emergency lamp.
- The boat turns towards the safe channel.
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