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Within the novels Things Fall Apart, written by China Achebe, and The Things They Carried, written by Tim O'Brien, characters are faced with their destiny. Howard Thurman once said, "Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials." Fate is an inevitable event that is predestined for a person. One character from each novel is faced to deal with that fate. Both characters deal with this quite differently. Okonkwo, the protagonist in Things Fall Apart has the grueling memory of his father stuck in his head. This memory is part of the "raw materials" which brings him to face his destiny. Tim O'Brien, however, has the experience of war and death. His experience demonstrates how extreme circumstances, like war, can turn a rational person to a person who commits unthinkable and cruel acts. Both characters have extremely negative experiences which lead them to face their destiny head on.
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