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Mr. Chiavetta Tony Yavicoli Due Date May 27, 1999 Period 4 Decisions, Decisions In the poem, The Road Not Taken, and the short story that I read, "The Bet", the characters were faced with important decisions that would affect them for the rest of there lives. In the poem, The Road Not Taken, the narrator is faced with the decision of which way he will go in life. He compares this to a fork in the road, and he chooses to travel along the road less taken, and become a poet. If he had chosen the other path, he would have a completely different life. He chose to be a poet because he thought that would be the best thing for him. In the short story "The Bet", the men are arguing about capital punishment versus life imprisonment. The lawyer says that he would take life imprisonment over death if he had the chose. Then the banker, who at the time had millions of dollars, bets him he won't stay imprisoned for $2 million. When the man went into the prison all he was thinking about was money, but during the time he was in jail, he became a very smart man and he studied many subjects. At the end of his term, he learned that money didn't mean all that much. Meanwhile, the banker was willing to kill the man over the money. The two men made decisions that affected their lives dramatically. Many decisions were made in this story. The banker decided to make a bet with a man, then he decided to kill him. The lawyer agreed to the bet, and he decided everything that he was going to do while in prison. He also made another major decision to walk out of his cell before he was supposed to, to win the bet, and that saved his life. People must make decisions everyday, some big, some small, and some that will affect them the rest of their lives. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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