Part one of term paper
AVITZ avitz by Mordecai Richler is a novel about the life of a young man named Duddy Kravitz growing up on Montreal's St. Urbain street. The novel chronicles his life from when he was a troublesome school boy up until he was a young man of nineteen desperately trying to make something of himself and own his very own piece of land. Along the ...

Part two of term paper
... close friends and is only interested in making money. In short Richler makes the point that in order to be successful you cannot play by the rules. You have to stomp on a few toes and you may lose a few friends along the way. Firstly Richler shows us in his novel how Duddy's character developed from a young age. The book starts out with Duddy as a fifteen year old attending high school. At the beginning of the book we find Duddy in a bitter conflict with a teacher at the school, Mr. ...