In the book Pastwatch there is two different characters that both have one extremely similar event in their life which sets them forward working extremely hard and doing anything they can to advance there lives. These two characters are Diko and Christofer Columbus. However, these extremely similar events happen hundreds of years apart.
In Pastwatch, Diko is allowed to use Pastwatch's technology and is given the assignment to help her mother by monitoring the life of Christofer Columbus and trying to find the moments in his life where he made the decision to strive for greatness. Eventually, Diko finds it and at the same time she makes her decision to strive for greatness.
In Columbus's life, he makes his decision when he questions the reasons why his father is treated differently than the gentlemen that he does business with. He asks his mother why and she responds by saying nobody with Christofer's father's job, as a weaver, could become a gentleman. After a lot of persuasion, Christofer's mom eventually convinced him that his father could never be a gentleman. So he chafed his intentions, he would become a gentleman. And from that point on, no matter what anyone told him, Christofer would strive to become successful and well known.
Meanwhile, generations into the future, Diko made the same decision. After she found the previously mentioned event in her studies in pastwatch, she was pushed to the point that she too wouldn't stop trying until she achieved what she wanted. In Pastwatch it said that Diko, "adjusted the schedule of her life to fit the hours when the machine was hers to use" (Card 73). This shows the massive amount of dedication that was gained by Diko, and similarly Christofer, caused by a single moment of motivation.
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