<p>Prompt : are people's lives the result of choices they make ? </p>
<p>People's lives are affected by the choices they make. What choice people opt affects the people's lives in either a good way or bad way. Choices and their consequences determine the course of every person's life. People have to look every choice from different angles. Two prominent archetypes exemplify how people's lives are affected by the choices they make are John Steinbeck's novel Grapes of Wrath and J.R.R's fantasy book The Lord of Rings .</p>
<p>A paradigm that people lives are affected by the choices the make occurs in the John Steinbeck's novel, Grape of Wraths. The Joad family, as a specific example, and the majority of the farming population in Oklahoma as a wider representation, find the job opportunities in California better than their current residing state. Upon reaching California, they find there are a hordes of applicants for every job, and thus, little hope for finding for what they have eventually planned and expected to earn for a better living. In Steinbeck's work, it is reality of life versus the Joad's preconceived fallacies of working as a migrant worker may earn them a better living in California, this example clearly cites that people lives are affected by the choices the make. </p>
<p>A final illustration that shows how people's lives are affected by the choices they make is cited by the fantasy novel by JRR The Lord of Rings. In the novel, the protagonist Frodo inherits a great powerful ring from his uncle Bilbo and when knowing the cons of the ring, Frodo decides to destroy the ring by his own. Frodo realises that the burden is one that he must conquer o his own. Although aided by his mystic wizard friends Gandalf and Aragon, the mens from kingdom, the path Frodo had chosen for the ring had many odds to overcome. In the end. Frodo had struggled hard and ultimately destroyed the ring by overcoming the odds. Frodo significant choice, ended up beneficial for the society and earth, by saving it from the dark forces. </p>
<p>To encapsulate, examples from literature like Steinbeck's work The Grape of Wrath and JRR's fantasy creation The Lord of Rings cites that people's lives are affected by the choices they make. </p>