The Influence Of Fate In Light On Snow By Anita Shreve?

Fate has a way of putting things in front of us, which we try most to leave behind. Light on Snow was an interesting novel that provides a perspective of fate and how one’s action causes a reaction. Nicky and her father are living at their new house after their lives were changed drastically, which leads to more unexpected events. The simplistic novel, by Anita Shreve, represents that with every unplanned action there is a consequential event occurring afterwards that leads into the unknown journey of life.
After a dramatic life experience, one can only imagine the emotional toll it takes on one’s self, sometimes the only thing you can do is hide away from it. Nicky and her father, Robert, moved from New York to an isolated town in southern
With this particular story, the parents, Charlotte and her boyfriend, made the best of the situation, not the baby. Charlotte and her boyfriend were trying to hide the fact that she was having a child, since strict Catholics raised them. They thought that they had always been careful, however, with Charlotte going into labor, the two of them set out to have the child themselves and not go to a hospital for any medical help. With just the knowledge from books, Charlotte knew she had to go somewhere and quick to begin labor. “When it started up again, we looked for signs for a motel.” (Page 226) With finding the random hotel, she gave birth and became unconscious. While being unconscious, her boyfriend had taken the baby and left to go to the woods back behind the motel. Simultaneously, Nicky and her father were taking their daily walk within their property and they started to hear a strange noise. After they heard a car’s door shut and drive off, which was Charlotte’s boyfriend, they soon realized that the noise was a baby’s cry. They ran to find it and after going through the trees, they stumbled upon the abandoned baby. They rushed to take the baby to the hospital as quickly as they possibly could; thankfully they had made it just in time. Questioning this, Nicky wondered if the baby would have been found if they hadn’t stumbled upon it. “What if we didn’t
After hearing that a baby was found left to die in the area that Charlotte gave birth, she instantly knew she had to see for herself. She managed to find the small town again and ask around to know where the Dillon’s lived. When she got to Nicky’s house, she acted as if she was buying her father’s furniture to make it seem as if she was just politely coming in as a normal routine. She then admitted that she wasn’t buying furniture, and instead came to thank them for finding her baby. Charlotte then quickly became sick and fainted. Trying to help as much as they could without being intentional accomplices, Robert and Nicky helped her. They fed her, clothed her, and even let her sleep in their guest bedroom. However, she was supposed to be leaving as soon as she could stand and get out from their house. But that night there was a snowstorm and it was a total of roughly three feet of snow, which would take at least a day to be plowed. “How long will it take to get plowed out? … It could take a day, maybe more… That long…” (Page 167) After questioning the length of time Charlotte was to stay, Nicky and her started to become friends. Later on, Charlotte explained to Nicky’s father how she had heard the astonishing story on the news and looked for the town on a map. “When the news came on, I heard something about an abandoned baby being in stable condition… The announcer said