A Knight's Tale

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I think that a man or woman can change his or her stars because if you don’t like how your life is going, then you can try to change it by improving your education, changing how you act, or improving how you live. I feel like if you set goals for yourself and you accomplish them, then you are changing your stars because you accomplished something that you might of thought was impossible. If you work hard for something that you want and you get, you are changing the destiny of how things may go in your life. How this relates to “A Knight’s Tale” is by William pretending to be a knight or thinking he was a knight even though it wasn’t written in the books. William worked so hard to become the best knight and he did. Then when people found out

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