Character Development In Duddy Kravitz By Jerry Dingleman

Bartlett explains, Mr. Dussold was offered several positions, but turned them down. He pursued his career job at Evansville. He quotes “It felt like coming home”(Pg.350). Among the first several years teaching at the university he says he never felt happier; until the rumor, the rumor he was sleeping with Peyla a undergraduate student. Since Mr. Dussold barely new Peyla he thought there was some sort of confusion to the fact his fiancee was a former student. Everyone knew they were together. He shrugs it off.

Moore creates the argument that the social hierarchy in drug distribution groups puts pressure on the drug dealers to complete their tasks. After quitting school in search of a job for his growing family, the other Wes secretly becomes a drug dealer. The author describes the other Wes’ crew and the “unbreakable bond” that many dealers considered “the only support system they had” (Moore 110). Moore claims that one of the reasons why both Wes’ had different lives is because of how everyone in his crew relied on each other to sell the drugs. It would be very difficult for the other Wes to choose to leave the drug industry because of everyone who relied on him to complete his job.

He uses her as a medium through which he can buy the land that he lusts for; because he is a minor and he cannot legally own land. " The farmers would be wary of a young Jew, they might jack up prices or even refuse to sell, but another French-Canadian would not be suspect. " Duddy also treats her as a sexual toy. He makes love with Yvette whenever he wants it, but he does not take Yvette’s feelings into consideration: "Yvette wanted to wait, but Duddy insisted, and they made love on the carpet."

The Outsiders is a novel written by a then 15 year-old by the name of S.E. Hinton. The tale of social divides revolves around a group of six teenage “greasers”. One of these greasers is Dallas “Dally” Winston. The greasers are the poor and underprivileged in society. The greasers as a group are in a constant struggle against the socialites, the high point of society, who are referred to as “socs”. Dally Winston is among the worst of them in terms of respect for the law. “He had quite a reputation. They have a file on him down at the police station. He had been arrested, he got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids--he did everything.”(11). Dally is said to have lived in New York for three years and had been arrested at the young age of 10. His behavior seems wild and unexplainable, but it can be deciphered through the means of Erikson’s theory on the stages of development, and Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs.

This made Duddy angry as he doesn’t like people disagreeing with his doings, and so he wave his fist at Hersh and says that. Throughout the novel you are able to see that Duddy is a boy, which needs ‘face’ all the time. He likes to impress the boys, so that they look up to him. He’ll do anything for attention and enjoys very much being the centre of attention all the time.

Dick Hickock had an excellent family, but they did struggle with finances. He was an outstanding athlete and a good student. Dick was “An outstanding athlete-always on the first team at school. Basketball! Baseball! Football! Dick was always the star player. A pretty good student, too, with A marks in several subjects…” (Capote 166).“I think the main reason I went there (the Clutter home) was not to rob them but to rape the girl” (Capote 278).

Gauri Patel AP Language- Mrs. Davis September 6, 2017 Chapters 1-6 of The Boys in the Boat: Mirrors or Windows? As I read pages 31-37, the edge of a different perspective on life is evident. The author, Daniel James Brown gives the reader a prestigious and detailed window view of every possible adversity in Joe Rantz’s life. The young, hopeless, Joe was the second child of Nellie Maxwell and Harry Rantz and a younger brother to Fred Rantz. Growing up with one catastrophe after another, the reader begins to realize that his weakness and instability was driven out of his traumatic familial relationships. The traumatic experiences Joe faced as a child, described earlier in the chapter, shows why he is such an independent character. Spring of

Even when Pap kidnapped Huck, he was satisfied in the dirt-floor shack, depending upon fishing and trading in town. Huck said, "it was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study" (Twain 24). Huck had not rejected society all-together, rather he chose a level of society that required less work. Far from living in harmony with the outside world, he and Pap depended upon ammunition, fishing hooks ammunition, and saws, axes, and guns. Furthermore, Huck's quest to "light out" (Twain 293) into the new is determined by his attachment to civilization. Bennett Kravitz, a teacher of American Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel, claims that “[Huck] is unable to avoid relying on the materials of the world he abandoned… [the] reconstituted cultural materials of a civilization that Huck desperately seeks to leave forever”. In other terms, Huck depends upon the artifacts of civilization to build his new world. While he is resourceful enough to kill his pig and escape from Pap, he relies on civilizations materials such as the raft and the borrowed food. To conclude, Huck connects with nature more so than civilization, however, still relies on civilization as he is dependent on civilizations creations to survive and, while he rejected society, he never truly abandoned it

We all want to become someone and we all want to become something. Our whole lives we strive to reach our dreams, whether that be wanting to make a difference in the world or trying to become a basketball player. Although our ultimate goal is to reach our dreams, what happens when your dream gets taken away from you against your will? In Kwame Alexander’s The Crossover, there was a character named Charles “Da Man” Bell. When he got diagnosed with Patella tendonitis, his life went spiraling downhill. Eventually, he became more and more problematic. Mr. Bell is proud, supportive, nostalgic, stubborn, and avoiding. Sometimes there is more than meets the eye.

Duddy is working towards the acquiring the land and starting his apprenticeship. Throughout the course of the novel Duddy has been seeing manipulating other, whether it was Yvette, Virgil, Mr. Cohen or others. Duddy can go to any extent to achieve his dream and continues making mistakes and never learns from it. Duddy uses Virgil and breaks his trust multiple number of times. Firstly, Duddy takes advantage of Virgil’s disabilities.

Hurst utilizes foreshadowing to demonstrate how the brother’s selfishness and pride leads to the death of Doodle. Not long after Doodle was born, the mother explains to the brother that Doodle might be mentally handicapped as well as physically handicapped. The brother could not accept the fact that his brother is different, so he “began to make plans to kill him [Doodle] by smothering him in his sleep” (Hurst 1). From the very beginning, Doodle’s brother is unable to except the fact that his brother is not normal and never will be. His selfishness and pride leads him to want to kill

Comparison of the other male character Delaney which lives his life as a typical American which sometimes can play the role as the one that is not the bread getter in the family, and With being a typical American comes with typical prejudice “The ones coming in through the Tortilla Curtain down there, those are the ones that are killing us. They're peasants, my friend. No education, no resources, no skills - all they've got to offer is a strong back, and the irony is we need fewer and fewer strong backs every day because we've got robotics and computers and farm machinery that can do the labor of a hundred men at a fraction of the cost”(101). Delaneys family shows how American culture has affected the ways that America begins to believe her fantasy and goes against what candido is trying to sustain in there family “It was a private community, comprising a golf course, ten tennis courts, a community center and some two hundred and fifty homes, each set on one-point-five acres and strictly conforming to the covenants, conditions and restrictions set forth in the 1973 articles of incorporation”(30) Also being an outcast that sticks out in the crowds of rich white “gringos” that are in Malibu Begins to have an added stress on both America and candido with staying hidden at their camp. Since they are casted out to the revine that they have placed shelter in, it does take a toll on the way that candido reacts with the actions that america is

The character becomes in conflict with himself when he meets and marries a girl by the name of Karen Friedman, which makes him reconsider his life as a gangster. However, he realizes that he is too deep into it and can not walk away. Despite this, for most of the film, he remains his calm, composed and likeable self, as he is shown as the only sane person of the crew. The catalyst to his character change is drugs. Once he starts dealing and using heroine and cocaine, he immediately becomes a jumpy and paranoid man, who is unable to keep his cool. His drug activities and incarceration lose him the respect of Jimmy Conway and made man Paul Cicero, who he becomes in conflict with, which makes him a marked man.

Trying to make ends meet, he turns to selling drugs. By the time Jimmy finds love ones more and decides to settle down tragedy occurs. Trying to escaping from a drug bust at a friend’s house his attempts end up with a conviction for murder. Due to his illiteracy, Jimmy couldn’t read the false accusations he never committed.

Cormac McCarthy’s brain child “The Road” is a postapocalyptic novel that illustrates the harsh reality of the world. This story serves as a truth that humans, when stripped of their humanity will take desperate measures in order to survive. The reader learns; however even when it seems all hope is lost good can still be found in the world. The son character of this story illuminates this philosophy. He is a foil of his father and shows how even a person never accustomed to the luxury of a normal life can still see goodness.