A child grows up with oppressive living conditions or authority figures usually in poverty and overcomes them to end the story with wealth status a companion and usually a kingdom of some kind.
Rags to riches book examples.
Youtuber casey neistat lived on his friend s couch.
Rags to riches is essentially what the american dream can be condensed to.
As humans we all like to hear inspiring and uplifting things especially in times of economic woes and downfalls.
Harry potter is close.
Left home and had a kid at 16 went to new york lived on his friends couch made movies with his brother moved to youtube and now is a multi.
In today s world i think a rag to riches story would easily inspire people to continue to fight through hard times.
These surprising rags to riches stories will show you exactly how one can go from humble origins to forbes list of the richest people in the world.
He did go from rags to riches but there was never the false riches in the middle that he lost only to find true riches later.
An argument could be made for book 3 being his false fortune when he found and thought he d live with sirius only to have that taken away.
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Even if you re one of those people who doesn t dream of extreme wealth these stories are able to show.