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Summary Of The Outliers By George Gladwell
Throughout the whole novel the reader has been able to see that Gladwell repeats himself in order to get his point across. As well as to make sure the reader understands what is going on if they get confused. However this is the second to last paragraph of the whole novel so this passage is clearly like seen before a summary of what has happened throughout the whole book and connecting it to the final chapter. Gladwell mentions almost all the people mentioned throughout the book and how they fit into being an outlier. He is tying it all together and he writes “It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky—but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the

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