How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"This [screw] is a necessary part of your destiny. It's in your hands now. Use it well, son. You kin open yo' eyes." (33.53)
Knowing what we know about what happens with the screw, do you think the author believes in fate or free will?
Quote #8
"If you know all this stuff about us… if you can see what's going to happen and it's already in motion, why bother? Why should we try to do anything? We can't change it."
She hops up, opens her arms wide. "Did I say that you couldn't change it?"
"No, but …"
"What I see is the course as it stands now. Today. At 10:27:07 p.m. Relatively Standard Time. Tomorrow, Keith could pick up a book, read a sentence there that completely alters the course of his life, and decide he wants to become an English professor and that's it. New ball game. Destiny isn't fixed, Cameron." […]
"Things can change, Cameron. It's the one constant of this universe." (37.95-100)
Of course Cam would take a fatalist approach, but Dulcie stops him. If change is the one constant of the universe, then fate has a different feeling to it. It's more of a coin toss than certain doom kind of vibe.
Quote #9
And just like that, something in the cosmos shifts. A butterfly flaps its wings in South America. Snow falls in Chicago. You give an idiot a stupid magic screw and it turns out to be a necessary part after all. (40.116)
Now Bray is just messing with us. She's arguing that although we each have a fate that we are destined for, our free will allows us to make decisions that can alter it at any time. She just effectively called a stalemate in the battle of fate versus free will. Now it's just a moo point.