EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Investment Banking, Class Discrimination, Protestant Work Ethic
11 Apr 2016
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Sandor was never really canadian but never fully hungarian no man"s land. At the end of part 1, he is increasingly distance from his family; he has no peer circle because his friends in his english circles leave him. His father was wrong ask for one (126) Sandor"s dad is all talk and no action. He is destroying his son"s dreams because he is a socialist and does not believe in the american dream. The alger books: promote honesty, puritan work ethic, and capitalism against socialism, alger wrote young adult novels, most of which had a nice older gentleman helping the kid along, if you just work hard, you can succeed. Sandor changes his name to the american/english name alex hunter which is very aggressively non-european (132-3) Sandor changes the part of his hair and his sense of fashion to make himself appear more english and wealthy. He is eating meals that he cannot afford.
