It is game point in the world tennis championship, the player swings and the ball hits full force on top the top of the net. The ball goes straight up, as it comes down it hits the net and falls back to the side the player hit it from and he loses. Who would he blame, a higher power or random chance. In the movie Match Point by Woody Allen, there is a there is a strong relationship between fate being determined random chance. There are many points during the movie where the characters fate is determined by random chance. When the Chris's wife is trying to become pregnant there were many times when it does not work out, and he made Nola pregnant the first time they did not use protection. When Chris throws the ring and it bounces off and lands …show more content…
Firstly, Chris and his wife had try to have a child many, many times and it just was not working out, it is clear they tried many times before when Chole says: "I was kind of hoping we might, you know...before you went to work. It's my time of the month and remember the doctor said we really should try and do it as often as we possibly can in the morning" (Allen). But when he has sexual intercourse with Nola without protection for the first time she becomes pregnant. It is very clear, Chole not getting pregnant after many attempts is just back luck and Nola getting pregnant on the first attempt is very bad luck, showing that it was all just a random chance. Secondly Chris throws the ring and it bounces back off the railing. He tried to throw in into the river but it bounces off of the railing and lands on the ground. The fact that the ring bounces of the railing instead of going right into the water in pure chance, if there was even a little bit more power in his throw it would have went right into the water. Furthermore, when Chris walks away after throwing the ring, a drug addict notices it and picks it up and puts in into his pocket. The chance of a person finding a ring lying on the
As far a Chris was concerned Christopher Johnson McCandless was dead. There was no more Chris as long as he was concerned his name was Alex and that was it. There was no college degree, no parents, no luxuries or free money. From now on he worked for everything he needed to survive and he started his new life bound for new territory.
Chris is an Ignorant person for several reasons, such as the several poor misguided decision he made throughout his journey. In Chapter 8, Nick James an Alaskan native quotes, “Such willful Ignorant… amounts of disrespect for the land, and paradoxically demonstrates the same sort of arrogance that resulted in the Exxon Valdez Spill just another case of underprepared…”(72). This quote shows the Alaskan viewpoint of
Some say that Chris was an idiot for going out into the Alaskan wilderness unprepared and without any knowledge of nature. “Why would anyone intending to live off the land for a few months forget boy scout rule number one: Be prepared” (krakauer, 71). This was a complaint sent in by a Alaskan hunter, and there were many more that followed that. The people writing the negative comments all believed that Chris either wanted attention, was stupid, or went out on a suicide mission. However, Chris was none of those things, he wouldn’t have been able to survive 113 days off
Chris was on a death mission weather he realized it or not. He went into the wild and is now causing people to unintentionally cause self harm to themselves. Peter Christian added, “Some like
Chris also realizes that material things are just that and nothing else in life. Chris
The appeals court based it’s the case Nabozny v. Barnhill (1975), 31 Ill.App.3d 212, 334 N.E.2d 258 that a player is liable for injury in a tort action if his conduct is such that it is either deliberate,
When Chris went hitchhiking across the country it was a complete surprise to his whole family. It all happened in a single day when he decided to up and leave everything he had. There were many determining factors that lead to his unexpected disappearance, as well as lots of time of preparation and planning. It was just another day for everyone except Chris, everyone was going on with their lives but he had much bigger plans. He shared his plans no one but his sister who he was very close with since an
Chris may not know how to do everything he needs to know to survive but she trusts himself, while failing at the end
A woman could do everything in her power to not get pregnant and still end up with a child, but there are not many preventative matters on the guy’s end. The Oklahoma Abortion Bill was put into place because they wanted to “bring men back into the decision making”
Chris strives to show people how real these situations can be. A man by the name of “William Boyette, a man accused of killing four women during an eighty-day crime spree, had allegedly beaten, stabbed, threatened or otherwise victimized numerous women over a span of more than a decade.” These situations are extremely dangerous and Chris may have been trying to help these people that end up in these situations victim or not. These situations should never be let out of control if possible they need to be stopped as soon as possible before they get out of hand. Some of the situations in the book got out of hand such as the situation with Heidi and her father Rich.
Chris ignored these people, which eventually brought him to his demise. In conclusion, Chris has no one to blame but himself for his own
Chris uses his issues with his family as a excuse to do what he wants and to disconnect with people. Another bad trate that Chris has is his disrespect for laws meant to keep people safe, and the environment safe. At the start of chris journey, he had a yellow car that he drove in to a flash flood
During Chris’s journey he never really opens up to anyone about his family. He doesn’t really show any affection towards them and if any it would be toward his sister Carnie. He writes in a letter to her stating that he is going to divorce his parents. The last time his parents saw him was after his graduation. Chris told his parents “ I think I’m going to disappear for a while” and that is the last they ever heard of him again.
On page 71 it says ”Entering the wilderness purposefully ill-unprepared, and surviving a near death experience does not make you a better human, it makes you damn lucky.” Therefore if his way of going about things were different he might have been able to actually survive. So it is clear that Chris is foolish for not being more prepared and accepting of help when offered, it maybe could’ve changed his
Otherwise it overwhelms you” (Allen, 2005). The only time Nola was unprotected leads to an inconvenient pregnancy indicating random chance since they didn’t believe it to go down this road as Chris even calls it an immense moment of bad luck. Moreover, Chris puts his fate into the hands of luck; in the event that there is morality, to the point in which immoral deeds should be penalized, however if he isn't penalized, then there is no moral authority or direction and the world is controlled by random