The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kr
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AVITZ
avitz by Mordecai Richler is a novel
about the life of a young man named Duddy Kravitz growing up on
Montreal's St. Urbain street. The novel chronicles his life from when he was
a troublesome school boy up until he was a young man of nineteen
desperately trying to make something of himself a ....
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.... a young age. The book starts out with Duddy as a fifteen year old
attending high school. At the beginning of the book we find Duddy in a
bitter conflict with a teacher at the school, Mr. MacPherson. As is seen in
this dialogue: -"I know you're responsible for the drawing on the board and I
think it cowardly of you not to have taken complete responsibility." said the
teacher. -"I'm a coward. Who's afraid to strap who around here?" responded
Duddy. We find that the young Duddy is a ....
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