The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz

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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Setting
“The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz” is written by Mordecai Richler. He elaborates many wonderful and foretelling settings.
“Before him spread a still blue lake and on the other side a forest of pine trees.” (page 106) This setting describes Lac St. Pierre, a lake where Duddy wants to buy land around. When Duddy was young, about fifteen, his grandfather Shimka, told him that, “A man without land is nobody.” This statement etched itself as a vivid image in Duddy’s mind. Duddy listened to his grandfather and bye the age of eighteen he was making movies and selling pinball machines so he could buy all the land around the lake.
“At the time, however, most Jewish boys in Montreal who had been to high school had gone to F.F.H.S and, consequently, had studied out of “The World’s Progress” (revised) with John MacPherson.” At the beginning of the novel Duddy had attended Fletchers Field High School (F.F.H.S.). He was fifteen at the time and he was not that bright. Duddy lives in the Jewish ghetto of Montreal. Montreal is the main setting in this novel because this is where Duddy both produces and sells all his films. “Some six miles from Montreal, set high in the Laurentian Hills on a shore of a splendid blue lake, Ste. Agathe des Montes had been made the middle-class Jewish community to own a resort many years ago.” Ste. Agathe is another important setting in the novel. Duddy worked as a waiter there when he was seventeen and here he met Yvette. When the two of them had gone for a walk, Yvette showed Duddy a lake, and at first sight Duddy knew he had to buy all of the land on this lake and he would do anything to abtain the money.
The setting in “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” helps the ongoing story. At the beginning of the novel Duddy lives in a Jewish ghetto in Montreal where he is raised by his father, Max, and goes to school at F.F.H...