Do you believe in fate? Many people believe fate direct their life and they are unable to overcome it by themselves. However, not everybody believes their life is directed by fate already. In the story The Outcasts of Poker Flat, John Oakhurst is a gambler and he doesn't believe fate. "He was too much of a gambler not to accept fate. With him life was at best an uncertain game, and he recognized the usual …showed first 75 words of 657 total…

…showed last 75 words of 657 total…derringer by his side and a bullet in his heart." In the end of his life, John still couldn't accept his fate that he dies under the lack of food and cold of the storm. He still fighting with his "fate" by killing himself with a bullet. Even though it doesn't change the fact that John shouldn't survive, John control his own "fate" by killing himself under his own bullet. <Tab/>