Journal on Escape from Spiderhead

3. Read the paragraph beginning “And hovered above it . . .” (25).  What does Jeff say about fate in this passage?  Are we destined to perform certain roles? How does this relate to the rest of the tale, especially Abnesti’s work?

·      What I learned in this paragraph is that according to Jeff, he believes that people are born with their fate already inside of them. Basically, no matter what a person does, they will wind up the way God intended them to wind up. For example, with all of the killers that were in the Spiderhead, they were born, and God already had it set in stone that they would grow up to be killers, and wind up in the Spiderhead, and whatever happens after that. I completely agree with this, and I always have. I think that everything we do in life was already set in stone when we were first born, and God knows exactly how we will turn out. I think that relates to the rest of Abnesti’s work, first of all, because God already knew this would happen, and God knew how every single experiment was going to go, according to Jeff’s thoughts. But, I realize that this kind oof contradicts the whole point of the experiments, because Abnesti is trying to figure out things that would’ve changed these people from killing. This is shown when Saunder’s writes, “’Think, Jeff,’ Abnesti said. ‘Think if you’d had the benefit of ED289/290 on your fateful night.’” This “fateful night” is referring to when Jeff had killed someone, and Abnesti is suggesting that if Jeff had had this drug, then the outcome would be different. But, according to Jeff, the way that Jeff’s life is, is exactly how it was meant to be from birth.