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Family Ties
"We're one family and we should stick together, just like the Rockefellers. In our own small way, I mean." As boy living on St. Urbain Street in the ghetto of Montreal, Duddy Kravitz, the main character in Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, is budding in a society where people with wealth and power are highly respected. However, the complexity of a person's character, like Duddy's, is influenced immeasurably through his family. The main three people who manipulate Duddy, and also give insight into his character, are his grandfather Simcha Kravitz, his older brother Lennie Kravitz, and his Uncle Benjy.

Wealth is what Duddy is led to strive for by his grandfather. Simcha Kravitz is the sole person who has believed in Duddy his whole lifetime, when others just considered him an unintelligent troublemaker. He recognised something admirable in his grandson and gave him the advice that, "A man without land is nobody." These few words create a drive......

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