"The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz"

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The paper is based on the famous Canadian novel, "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" by Mordecai Richler. The focus of this particular essay is the point of view used by Richler in this novel. The point of view is the third person, but the focus shifts between the main character, Duddy Kravitz, and that of other characters, sometimes even minor characters.

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"In any work of fiction, the point of view is a very powerful narrative tool, in that it determines how well we get to know specific characters, what we know about them, whom we sympathize with and how the narrative is constructed. The two standard points of view that most fiction writers use are first-person (in which the action is told from the point of view of the main character, who refers to himself as "I") and third person (in which all characters are referred to as "he").

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