The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz Analysis

By reading the book The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz in the first chapter, I would say theme of the story is standing up to what you believe in. In the book when Mr. Macpherson told Duddy his father was unfit to bring him up, Duddy right away stood up for his father and told Mr. Macpherson he had no right to say that about his father. Then again, when Mr. Macpherson accused Duddy for drawing a picture of Mr. Macpherson on the board, Duddy told him he drew a little, but it was the whole class idea. Another message in the story is succeeding. Duddy always wants to succeed. I can tell by this in the first Chapter because when he and his friends went inside this store, he started telling a man how he should hand pamphlets about Jesus at