Theme Of Destiny In The Sports Gene

I personally believe that we have control of how are destiny will work for us. We can do the right things in life, or do the not so good things that sabotage the way our destiny is suppose to work out for us. In The Sports Gene, by David Epstein, Donald Thomas was led to his destiny by a bet from a current track member who did high jump. He then found out that he was naturally good at high jump, because of his giant achilles tendon. But in Macbeth, by Shakespeare, Macbeth sabotaged the way he was going to become king of Scotland. He thought he could kill people, to make his time of being king come faster. So, what actions did the characters do to control how their destiny was going to work out for them? In The Sports Gene, Donald Thomas had

But the way he found it was different than any other way other people find their special talents. Thomas was bragging about he could dunk in basketball. As said in the article, “ Carlos Mattis, Lindenwoods top high jumper, had enough of Thomas’s lip and bet him that he couldn’t clear 6’6” in a high jump competition” (Epstein). So, a current track member Carlos Mattis that did high jump bet Thomas that he couldn’t jump 6’6”. Thomas then took the bet. He went to the high jump mat, and cleared 6’6” with no problem. After a while of doing high jump, Thomas found out that he has a special talent. After, joining the track team and doing track meets, Thomas went to the 2007 World Championships. Thomas and Holm’s were going back and forth, until Holm’s failed to complete a jump, which made Thomas the World Champion. Thomas then became known as, “ The guy in pole vault

The witches never said he would become king though. Macbeth started to plan out a way he could become king soon. His plans consisted of multiple lies. Macbeth was going to kill King Duncan. He was going to get away with it by getting the guards drunk and blaming it on them. The story says “ Whatever we do we can blame it on the drunken guards” (Shakespeare). After killing King Duncan, Banquo said to Macbeth, “ I suspect you have cheated to win these crowns” (Shakespeare). Which led Macbeth to also kill Banquo because Macbeth didn’t want it to get out to everyone that he had killed King Duncan. After lies upon lies, Macbeth got stressed about keeping all them. So, when he was sleeping he started to sleep talk and let all those lies out. People then heard and the news got out about who killed King Duncan. They then killed Macbeth. So, the new King of Scotland was Malcolm. If Macbeth were to wait to become King, he wouldn’t have gotten into all the trouble he got into. The actions he did made his destiny not work out the way it was suppose to. He could have the right thing and waited for his