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: Re: Stories about people who went from rags-to-riches-to-rags and stayed there? I need suggestions for stories I can read to get inspiration on how to tackle a nonfiction rags-to-riches-to-rags story
My favorite rags-riches-rags story is the classic folktale "The Fisherman and His Wife." It's not clear that the title couple is happier at the end, but there's a strong sense that they are better off as they are. www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm019.html. Orson Scott Card's "Unaccompanied Sonata" also has the up and down story arc, with an ambiguous ending.
One of the best examples I can think of is the original novel The Neverending Story (not to be confused with the movie version). The title character completes an entire arc from bullied kid to godlike Emperor and then back, but he ends the book with a new sense of identity and self-confidence.
If you want a true life story, what about Jimmy Carter? From peanut farmer to leader of the free world, but arguably at his best in the years after his presidency, not during them.
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