Essay on The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Re-read lines 1 – 24, what can you tell about the teacher and the speaker.

Edmundson is an English professor at the University of Virginia. He begins his argument with a discussion of class evaluations. He fears the results will be lackluster, just fine, nothing special. If his class is lackluster he fears he will have no significant impact on his students’ lives, no inspiration, and his class will not have changed anyone’s life.

Emile Durkheim was French sociologist. He was born on April 15, 1858 in Epinal, France. Epinal is located in the Eastern French Province, Lorraine. His father, Moise was the Chief Rabbi of Epinal, Vosges, and Haute-Marne, while his mother, Melanie, worked as an embroiderer. Durkheim was the youngest of their four surviving children.

She truly loved him, and wanted the best for Duddy. While all Duddy was thinking about was money and becoming rich so he could get the land. He wanted to buy the land so he could build a children’s camp, hotel, and a farm beside a lake. Yvette toke Duddy to the lake for the first time, and he told her not to tell anyone and that he would give her fifty dollars for it. “‘If you promise me that I’ll give you fifty dollars.'

Another obvious characteristic he shows throughout the novel is that he enjoys having status among the group of friends. He wants to be the one who is threatening, and above all the other boys. He doesn’t like it when people insult him or get in his way, as in doing something, which he dislikes, or someone saying something, which disagrees with him. We can see this when he says ‘We know how to deal with tuchusleckers here’ he says this to Hersh when Duddy was giving MacPherson a hard time and Hersh told Duddy to ‘Leave him alone’. 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.

Chapter four delves more deeply into the rather tragic life of Chris Langan. He grew up very poor; his father was an alcoholic and for the most part absent. He was a highly gifted student and ended up receiving a full scholarship to Reed University. He found the adjustment very difficult, due to the fact that the teachers had little to no involvement or interest in their students. The odds were stacked against him despite his hard work and commitment to his education. Through numerous setbacks, he maintained his rigorous academic passion and excelled at calculus. Nonetheless, the teachers and school system refused to notice

After Duddy graduates from school, he is lead further astray by his peers in his apprenticeship. The McGill boys whom Duddy works with at Rubin’s Hotel teach him to be ruthless by playing pranks on the young boy. Irwin, without much conscience himself, not only makes life miserable for Duddy, but also enlists his girlfriend Linda to cheat Duddy at his roulette game. Losing his entire summer savings, Duddy realizes the truth about Linda and says to her, "I thought you went out with me because you liked me. Boy, was I ever a sucker." (94) While working in Uncle Benjy’s dress factory, Thérèse encourages Duddy to follow Adèle into the washroom, thus getting the young girl into trouble. This sets in motion the part of Duddy’s apprenticeship that deals with women. Mr. Friar is right when he says Duddy is "callow…he hasn’t the first notion of how to treat a woman." (163) Yvette is crippled in that she is submissive like many of Duddy’s peers. She suffers verbal abuse from Duddy such as "you little fool" (98) and knows that he is using her to buy land, as he is underage. When Yvette mentions romance, Duddy laughs, "I don’t get it. Imagine guys getting married and tying themselves down to one single broad for a whole lifetime when there’s just so much

TreVon was rushing to get out the door. He knew if he missed the buss one more time he was going to be in big trouble. He’s older brothers Luther and Jaron never favored him anyway. So they did not care if he missed the bus. TreVon was very smart kid but he wanted to be cool so he did not care about his grades. The boy's mother worked 13 hour shifts at a old mill house. His mother Mary did not like TreVon outside during the late hours of the night. Today was the day he probably wished he

‘You see,’ he said, his voice filled with marvel. ‘You see.’ ” Right in that very sentence a sort of pride arose from the book to the reader even though any reader with a conscience realizes that this is not something to be blissful about. Duddy eventually does become someone of somewhat significance save for going about it in a completely shameful way with partial reference above.

I believe that what the student was saying about how mostly kids don’t get jobs because they are lazy or there was someone better at the job than he was. That was also something that kids suffer with now n day so when Laurie Hales Anderson bought that up it was something mostly all teen and adults have a problem with.

In the story Clover the teacher, a man that goes by the name of Graham, interacts with students in numerous ways. The author describes Mr. Graham’s unique characteristics in the classroom and at home in several ways. One way he describes the teacher’s characteristics is by telling what is going on in his home life and other things of that matter.

This knowledge allows him to inform readers on how the school system fails graduates before they even make out of school. His emotional tone is bitter and informative; the use of bitter words in the essay shows how he felt towards the school system. He uses sarcasm as he says “Most will spend a decade wandering from job to job and cliché to cliché searching for a role”.

Dave is the least favorite of the teachers. He is the student all the teachers talk about together after school, and all the teachers wish they could just pass to send him along to the next grade. He does not take any notes at all because he is too lazy. Dave does not even listen to the teacher because he does not care what the teacher has to say about the lessons. He is the student who tries to distract Ally and Harry and gets everybody off topic. He goofs around constantly with other students from bell to bell and occasionally falls asleep during class sometimes. Dave is the student who has to be moved to different seats all throughout the semester because he cannot stop talking to the other students in the room and distracting them. He does not study at all because he never pays attention in class long enough to write down any notes. Dave’s tendency to not care about studying or making good grades which results in him making mostly C’s, D’s, and F’s. Dave is not the type to bring home grades to his parents because he knows they will most likely not put the grades up on the refrigerator door for everyone to

Boddy was a genius inventor. I am specifically disappointed in Mrs. White. She waits on him hand and foot. She knew that he did not do that project, yet she kept her mouth shut and let me sink into embarrassment. So, I got mad. Not you're average mad, the type of mad that's fuels rash decisions. I saw Mr. Body walk out of the dining room with Miss Scarlet. Now is my chance, I thought. I told the dinner party, I was going to use the restroom, and I followed Miss Scarlet's voice. I saw Miss Scarlet go up the stairs and Mr. Body walk into the conservatory. I walked as quietly as I could and saw a wrench near a flower pot. I grabbed and I was hardly thinking. I promise all I wanted to do was knock him out so I could take him to a room and ask him why he did what he did. I wasn't thinking straight and I hit him as I hard as I could. Once he fell over, I just kept hitting and hitting until I was positive there was no sign of

Additionally, in hopes to create an emotional connection between the audience, Jobs tells deeply personal stories. He explains how life is about connecting the dots. Through this story, Jobs talks about his youth from his adoption to his parents trying to afford to send him to Reed College. Through Jobs creating a sense of honesty and a sense of empathy, the students and audience start to begin seeing Jobs as a real person. After creating that sense, Jobs makes the students feel outraged after hearing his story about dropping out, building Apple, and then hearing about how he got fired from his own job.This leaves the audience questions like, “How could that happen to a man like him? Then Jobs leaves them feeling fearful of their own mortality after hearing about Jobs road with cancer. After having the graduates in the palms of his hands, Jobs leaves them with a message that he did not have an easy beginning very much like the other graduates and that this message will be with them forever as they overcome obstacles to success.