The will to survive. Mother and child. The prerogative given to every human being. But who really knows who has control over this vital responsibility?
Take the Titanic for example. Who was really to blame for that "unsinkable" ship going down? Some would say it was the engineers fault, because they did not make the hull strong enough. Others would claim that it is the captain's fault for ignoring the six warning signals, all of them informing the captain that danger was ahead. Or maybe it was Mother Nautre's fault for setting an iceburg there. Others, still, were convinced that the sole reason the Titanic sank was for the weight of the potatoes of on board.Whichever you agree with does not matter; in fact, it is difficult to decide which is to blame (I think we can rule out the potato idea.) Who is to blame for the deaths of 1,517 people?
A good example of the zeal to survive can be found in the Call of the Wild. When Buck, a faithful family dog, is taken away and sold by a greedy farm hand. As the novel progresses, Buck abandons his fromer self, a friendly, loveable pet, and adopts a more primal way of life in order to survive the brutal climate he was sold into. Buck never would have been forced to adapt had he not been thrown into such a circumstance. So who is to blame for his struggles? The greedy farm hand? Mother Nature? The other dogs for making survival so difficult?
Maybe no one has contol over there life. Or maybe we all have every bit of contorl of our lives on this planet. All I know is that whichever view point you take, we all have an effect on our lives, and ultimitley, our suvival.
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