This is a parapgraph from my paper: What is this “destiny?” According to the novel destiny is what keeps each person’s life going in a certain course that is planned out for them. When something interferes, as what Stefan does, destiny tries to correct the original course. It seems to me that this destiny can be described as “God’s plan” or “will” for us. Could that be right either? Stefan’s interference would be going against and actually changing God’s original plan. This would mean God has to work through the rules and laws of our Earthly world to make things go the way he wants them, and have less power and control from what we normally would think. Perhaps this “destiny” is the first or original plan for a person’s life and how it should be. When something goes in a different direction, “destiny” (perhaps can be describe as God’s angels or forces) tries to keep as much of the original plan as before or until “destiny” is satisfied with how things are. Destiny could just be another name for a “guide line” that maps out our lives but something could happen to redirect us from the “plan.”