Father Kleinsorge In John Hersey's Hiroshima

In the book Hiroshima by John Hersey, one of the characters, Father Kleinsorge, survival is a result of fate, not conscious decisions. At the start of the novel you found out that the Father lived in the only building at the mission house that survived the blast. “The next thing that he was conscious of .. that all the building round about had fallen down except for the Jesuits’ mission house, which had long before been braced and double braced…” (Hersey 13). The fact that his room was in the only building still standing was fate. He didn’t pick it for that reason, he just happened to be in it at the time of the explosion. Father Kleinsorge wasn’t aware of what would happen to him that day so the fact that he was in a double braced house