The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz

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The novel “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” is about a poor Jewish boy named
Duddy growing up in the ghetto streets of Montreal on St. Urbain street. Duddy didn’t
have a lot going for him, he had a brother named Lennie going to University leaving him behind and a father named Max telling stories about the Boy Wonder someone who Max
believed in but didn’t believe in Duddy. Duddy only had one person to look up to and
that was his grandfather Zeyda, who believed in Duddy and Duddy told him his hopes
and dreams. Out of all Duddy and Zeyda talked about there was always one thing that
Duddy remembered best of all. Zeyda told Duddy a “man without land is nothing”. That
one sentence changed Duddy’s whole way of thinking. He became hooked on it. Building
up to reach that one goal, or better thought placed in his head by his most respected
friend. He worked hard to show everyone that he wasn’t nothing but something by getting
his own land. It corrupted him to the point that anything would be done to keep this
vision lined up and close until he reached it, breaking all moral code, leaving no honour.
But to say, he, in his own way was the Boy Wonder. Stopping at nothing for this dream
made relationships extremely hard for Duddy because he would even hurt the people he,
so called loved to get to this dream.

Duddy wanted to be in Max’s eye, someone Max could tell stories about or show
off to his friends, mostly a son to be proud of. Duddy wanted to prove to every, mostly
Max that he was more then just some dumb kid that was always getting in trouble and
going nowhere in life. Max would tell his friends about his other son Lennie that was
going to become a doctor and go to University. When Max’s friends asked about Duddy
Max would tell them that Duddy was a good kid but dumb like his old man, meaning he
didn’t think Duddy would go anywhere in life. Another thing that Max loved to tell about
was t...