Cost of Life or Zeal for Survival

    

              It is very hard to say who is resposible for somebody’s life. Very often it depends on the situation. Most of the time, I think, we are responsible for our life, as it’s our life. Moreover, at times we don't even want to be honest and admit it to ourselves. Life is like a theatre, like a big play, and everything might happen, even tragedies; we won’t always depend on ourselves. There are a lot of tragically moments in history. However, how sad it wouldn’t be, this tragically moments that ended up with death, a lot of deaths, did not depend on those people who died.

              One of the brightest and most memorable examples for me is a story with Titanic. Can you only imagine how big the lost was and how horrible that was? One thing that made this tragedy more badly was that it was so unexpected. Nobody could even predict that something could happen with such a frugal and seemed to be perfect built Titanic, which will take hundreds of lives. As we know, the tragedy was not fault of passengers but staff, whose work was to be so painstaking and so careful while checking the ship and building it also. Unfortunately, staff didn’t make it. We can blame a lot of people and we can be wrong in one or the other person, because we don’t know for sure whose fault are all those deaths, but we know for sure that all the people that were on a cruise, they were innocent.

              For the second example I chose a moment from the novel called “The call of the Wild” by Jack London. I decided to choose this novel to show the reader the difference that can happen about responsibility of life. After Buck was sold for the first time, those people took him to Alaska and train him as a sled dog where he quickly learns how to survive the cold winter nights and the pack society by observing his teammates. Buck and the vicious, quarrelsome lead dog, Spitz, develop a rivalry. When Buck eventually beats Spitz in a major fight, and after Spitz is defeated, the other dogs close in, killing him. Buck then becomes the leader of the team. Here we can see another death, another tragedy, BUT the difference between the “Titanic death” and Spitz’s death is exactly in responsibility of a life. The dog Spitz, he was responsible for his life, as he was involved in fight with Buck. That was between them two only; it’s not Buck’s fault at all that Spitz died, because Spitz knew what he was doing and he understood that if he was going to die-he should blame himself.

              We can debate a lot about this rhetorical “Who is responsible of somebody’s life” but what would you say about that?