The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kr
One’s life is a personal venture. From the day of birth, people set goals and
expectations for themselves. Life is essentially one’s self-dictionary; lessons are learned,
morals are acquired, and conformity to a standard of right is attained. In the novel The
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler, the reader learns about Duddy’s
ventures in his life, whether he succeeds or fails during his obstacles, the reader will gain
important morals and lessons in life itself. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a
novel based on the life of Duddy Kravitz, Duddy’s character shows that he lacks
attention of others, has no remorse towards the people surrounding him, and his ...
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and his brother Lennie. As a young boy Duddy Kravitz reveals to the reader that he is a rebellious character, however, he is also a young boy who cannot distinguish between right from wrong as well. Lennie Duddy’s brother was the favored sibling because he had a successful career ahead of him as he was studying to become a doctor. Max Duddy’s father constantly judged Lennie and Duddy, he explains to Duddy that throughout Lennie’s years in Fletcher’s Field High School he had never gotten the strap, Max also reminds Duddy of how successful Lennie is and how proud he is of Lennie. Even Duddy’s uncle Benjy shows how concerned he was in Lennie’s future that he was paying for his school tuition and for any other payments Lennie needed (Richler page 63).
Uncle Benjy took pride in all of Lennie’s achievements. The medals, the scholarships, and ultimately his acceptance by the McGill University faculty of medicine. He paid the boys fees, gave him a weekly allowance, and was certainly ...
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smoke bubble pipes (pg.50). Duddy gets a thrill for doing wrong things, this is the only way he feels he gets attention. Duddy is a character who not only understands himself well, but others as well. Duddy does not comprehend that the ones surrounding him try to help him, instead of receiving the help he enjoys to irritate the people around him, Mr.MacPherson is a character that Duddy irritates the most in this novel. Throughout this novel we see Duddy constantly aggravating Mr.MacPherson, however, Duddy does not understand that he is a struggling man. With his ill wife who later on passes away also due to Duddy and his work, Duddy keeps on tormenting Mr.MacPherson without looking at ...
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