Fate vs Free Will Scenes
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Fate vs Free Will Scenes
The Bell at Blackwood Bridge
Scene 1 — The prediction When Mara was eight, her grandmother read the old family rhyme: “At seventeen, when the river runs high, the bell will toll and one Blackwood will leave.” Mara had always thought it was only a rhyme. Now, at seventeen, she stood beside the swollen river with a packed bag. A storm had washed out the road, and the town’s warning bell began to ring. Her brother Eli grabbed her sleeve. “It’s happening just as Gran said,” he whispered. Scene 2 — The choice Across the bridge, a small car had stopped in rising water. Its driver was trapped. Mara could stay on the safe bank and wait for help, or cross the narrow footbridge to reach the car. Eli pointed at her bag. “You’re meant to leave. Don’t make the rhyme come true.” Mara looked at the trapped driver, then set her bag down. “The rhyme doesn’t get to choose for me.” She crossed, tied a rope around the car door and helped the driver climb out. Scene 3 — The toll As Mara and the driver reached the bank, a deep crack split the old footbridge. It collapsed into the river behind them. The bell rang once more. Mara’s bag had been swept away, and she would have to leave town with the rescue crew until the roads reopened. Eli stared at the river. “The rhyme was right,” he said. Mara shook her head. “Maybe about what happened. Not about why I did it.”
Read the scenes closely
Use details from the story to support your ideas. More than one interpretation may be reasonable when it is explained with evidence.
- Mara has always thought the rhyme was only a rhyme.
- The storm blocks the road, the river rises and the warning bell rings as predicted.
- Eli grabs Mara’s sleeve.
- Mara is carrying a packed bag.
- The family rhyme predicts a departure at seventeen.
- The storm washes out the road.
- Mara chooses to help the driver.
- The bridge collapses and her bag is swept away.
- The rhyme predicts that a Blackwood will leave at seventeen.
- Mara sets down her bag and crosses to help.
- The bridge collapses in the flood.
- Mara says the rhyme does not choose for her.
- B. A predicted outcome
- D. Refusal to surrender agency
- A. Deliberate choice
- C. An external force
- A prediction controls every decision a person makes.
- People can make meaningful choices even when events are outside their control.
- People can avoid all consequences by ignoring warnings.
- Coincidences prove that characters have no agency.
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