REPOSSESSED By A.M JENKINS

THEMES: FATE & FREE WILLREBELLION

TALLER DE PRÁCTICAS DOCENTES IIIIFDC – 2012

TEACHERS: ANDREA PUCHMÜLLER, LUCÍA QUIROGASTUDENTS: ADELA PEREZ DEL

VISO, MARCELA CLARK

FATE & FREE WILL What is fate?

1- the development of events outside a person´s control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power

2- the outcome of a situation for someone or something

3- the unescapable death of a person

What is free will? the power of acting

without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one´s own discretion

Implies choiceWordReference.com

Fate & free will in the novel

“The actual hijacking of the body took place about one second before the guy was about to step out from behind a parked SUV into the street and get iced, as they say, by a speeding cement mixer”

Kiriel (p.3)

Fate & free will “Shaun would not have been here,

whether I had taken his body or not.” Kiriel p.43

“Shaun would have died whether I´d stepped in or not. Those last moments I took from him would have been filled with either pain or nothingness” p.86

“Sometimes... People like to feel that any good fortune they have is due to their own wise choices. That´s true sometimes, but a lot of the time it just comes down to random chance” K. (p.160)

“Maybe I never had to be in Hell, not for a single moment.” Kiriel.(p.175)

“You have interrupted the trajectory of his existence” ... “The man who was supposed to hit Shaun didn´t, so his trajectory has to be remade as well”

Hanael. (p.213)

How does the story end? HANAEL & KIRIEL:

“You must leave Shaun´s body in the same manner in which you took it”

“Are you saying I´ve got to step in front of a truck?”

“Just so.”

(p.213)

REBELLION 1- ARMED RESISTANCE TO AN

ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENT OR RULER

2- DEFIANCE OF AUTHORITY OR CONTROL To be out

of placeTo brake

rules.

To defy CONSEQUENCES.

REBELLION.

2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

“I wanted to do more than

appreciate, exalt, and honor (God); I wanted to take an active hand in the

creation of the cosmos, to have an influence that was

all my own. The Rebellion was

not a physical act, it was a SPIRITUAL

UPRISING, AN UNAUTHORIZED OUTPOURING OF

ZEAL” P.37. “The Boss led the Rebellion, the whopper of revolts, the

insurrection.” P. 172

REBELLION.FALLEN ANGEL---

“The Fallen, wondered, questioned, confronted, eventually demanded, and in

general pushed the edges of the envelope till the envelope burst. “

Kiriel, in Repossessed

. P. 9

OUT OF PLACE. A PLACE NOT ALLOWED.“I was out of my sphere, ou of my designated place in

the scheme of the universe. What I was doing WASN`T

ALLOWED.

Kiriel, in Repossessed

. P. 35

REBELLION BREAKING RULES:

“You`re breaking about a million rules right now”. “You´re

supposed to oversee the torment

of souls”.

ANIUS, Hell Manager, overseer of the overseers. (P. 171).

REBELLION DEFIANCE

“Of all the beings to send for me, they`d picked the one who annoyed

me the most. The one I couldn`t stand to listen to.

“Wah, Wah, Wah”, I said…” “Go back to Hell, I`m on vacation”.

(Kyriel, P. 171).

REBELLIONCONSEQUENCES OF REBELLION AND AUTONOMY:

FEAR.

“I`d done that which shouldn´t be done. Would I now end up in my own domain, this

time undergoing the same interminable torments I´d always supervised?? (P.-36).

FEAR OF DEATH

AND PUNISHMENT

ANALYSIS OF THEMES. Is it a young-adult-exclusive theme?

FATE AND FREE WILL.

It is not an exclusive topic of young-adults.

It is a huge topic that worries everyone.

ARE THESE TWO THEMES CONTROVERSIAL?

FATE AND FREE WILL REBELLIONYES. Different views. Yes, it is debatible.PHYLOSOPHY// TEOLOGY. It has to do with: RULES/ LAW/

THE UNFAIR/ JUSTICE.

SOURCES www.wordreference.com JENKINS, A.M., Repossessed, Harper

Collins, New York, 2009. www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/real/fr

eewill.htm.

The painting: “Satan before the Lord.”Around 1750. Oil on canvas, 88 x 117 cm-Corrado Giaquinto.