In a moment, anything at all can change. Materials often includes decisions or perhaps change meetings without premeditation or the technique of forethought. In Little Bee by Frank Cleave, Tiny Bee, an African American female, runs into British editor Sarah O'Rourke over a beach on Nigeria. In this fateful place, their lives accidentally " collide” devoid of either of them planning the encounter; nevertheless , when this kind of chance conference occurs among O'Rourke and Little Bee, their lives are altered permanently as well.
The encounter among Little Bee and Debbie O'Rourke was entirely influenced by chance. Prior to such an encounter, neither had known the various other existed, and were at the beach for different reasons. However , to fully develop the plot, Cleave takes advantage of the unexpected encounter to sow the seed products of a potential friendship and bond between two girls of different contests. He afterwards exploits the plot utilizing the accidental confrontation as a cause of Andrew O'Rourke's suicide as well. The come across between Very little Bee and Sarah O'Rourke proves significant when the O'Rourkes were given a decision whether or not Very little Bee and her sister would live. Sarah obliges to the armed terrorists' ransom for Very little Bee's lifestyle but Claire allows her sister to die. When Andrew will not give up his finger, Dorothy pleads with him, declaring, " Just a finger, Andrew, and then we're going walk back again again” (114). Though the first encounter at the sea impacts the plot, the encounter was arbitrary. The undesired outcome of this confrontation again underscore Cleave's ingenious use of coincidence to manipulate the novel.
Split uses coincidence to further develop his history by placing Little Bee at the O'Rourke's house 2 yrs later, the 2nd encounter together. The time was unparalleled and for Toby, undesirable, for doing it directly resulted in his decision to make suicide. Toby clearly would not want to see Tiny Bee again, for this individual still sensed guilty for what happened at the beach and declined...
Cited: Split, Chris. Tiny Bee. Nyc: Simon & Schuster, 2008.