... as Virgil would say "Duddy can do anything"; other people (most everyone else) has about the same view as his father " my boy was a trouble-maker. He was born on the wrong side of the tracks with a rusty spoon in his mouth- I think that the reason people don't like Duddy is ... because Duddy was and always has been a good business man; "Some of his stamp business profits Duddy invested in the comic book market." The other reason is that Duddy is rude! To his girlfriend Yvette he says "listen, listen the cats pissin", when she tells him to be ... a smart businessman "Duddy soon establish...

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... , let the teacher base their assessment on the student themselves. I seen this up front with one of my friends in high school, this business teacher we had labeled him a trouble maker based on his two brothers that she had before him, it turned out he was nothing like them at all and was one of the better students in the class ... but because she had this thought in the back of her head she always came off very negative towards him. One quote that I found in the book that I really liked was, "These teachers talk about a clean slate, they say in essence they would like to find out about t...

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... immature in his social development. It is the problems that Jack causes that bring about the rift between the group of boys. Jack is the savage one, the problem maker. This whole book would have turned out different if Jack had thought more about the group than about himself. If he had thought about the good of the group and what would ... ...

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... , a soldier will constantly face death and dole out death during the course of the war. Facing one's own death can instill fear in many people, including the soldiers in the book. ("He became like the man who lost his legs at the approach of the red and green monster") For example, Henry, at his first battle, fights alongside his regiment against ... it would be better to get killed directly and end his troubles") This quality is a sense of inevitability that pervades a person's mind and guarantees them that they will meet their maker soon. The reality in which these soldiers are living,...

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