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Justice and Betrayal Montana 1948 by Larry Watson is a story about a boy who is unsuspectingly thrown into adulthood due to tragedy. This novel is a bildungsroman because of the changes that the main character, David experiences. In the conclusion of Montana 1948 David changes in significant ways like wanting his old life back and changing the way he views his family. David is board with his everyday life and yearns for more excitement. The changes that happen are not exactly what he was looking for. His father’s job is something that let him down “a position for so much excitement, danger and bravery, why couldn’t some of that promise be fulfilled” (p5). He has always pictured the old western cowboy who rides off on horses shooting bad
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