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             Its turning suffers not the same man to prosper forever" This quote means that the same person will not always get what he or she wants all the time. I agree with this quote, the same man will not always get what he or she wants but he will get it sometimes. In the Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima the protagonist Shinji did not always get what he wanted, actually he almost never got what he wanted in life. However this was ok because in the end things come together. However in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the protagonist Okonkwo had a decent life until he made some bad choice, which led to more bad choices until things slowly fell apart for him.
             In the Sound of Waves, Shinji, the protagonist falls madly in love with a girl in town. She is a beautiful girl and because of her uncle she is in high standing and can only be married to a person in her social class. Shinji is only a poor boy that has no chance of being with this girl. However he finds a way by mainly luck to marry this girl. Eventually the two get married and live happily ever after. .
             In Things Fall Apart Okonkwo has had luck throughout his whole life. His family is in good health he in high places in the town and he has a decent amount of money and food. By making a wrong choice he starts almost a plague that affects him for the rest of his life. He goes from a man that is popular to eventually a dead man because of a wrong choice. So the same man will not prosper forever.
             "Men's fortunes are on a wheel. Its turning suffers not the same man to prosper forever" The turning of the wheel suffers different people in different ways. Some people will be affected by it. Some people will not be affected by it. The people who are affected by it may be affected by it in two ways. It may affect you in a good way and it may affect you in a bad way. How ever this is all depending on the type of person you are!.
            


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