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The Assistant & Left Hand of Darkness

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A 6 page report that includes 3 separate essays on Bernard Malamud's The Assistant and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. The first essay offers a character comparison on the principal characters from The Assistant. The second essay discusses themes from The Left Hand of Darkness and the third, compares the two books. Each essay is roughly two pages in length. No additional sources cited.

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6 pages (~225 words per page)

File: D0_khmallgn.rtf

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Table of Contents. Also, what the student chooses to entitle his/her own essay is up to the student. The student will have to write the requested preface, since only the student researching this topic can describe the process that the student employed for "completing this project in a non-stressful, timely manner" as well as why the student selected these particular books. Please note also that since the student only purchased six pages, each of the requested essays can only be, roughly, two pages in length. (This paragraph was not included in determining the page count.) Character Comparison/The Assistant Morris Bober and Frank Alpine, the principal characters from Bernard Malamuds The Assistant, are very different. Propelled by a pipe dream that he could "be somebody," Alpine participates in the holdup of a sixty-year-old Jewish storekeeper, Morris Bober, who is knocked unconscious during the robbery. Filled with remorse, Alpine returns to the scene of the crime and begins helping out around the grocery, which results in his being hired as an assistant. Bober is a simple man, honest and responsible. Alpine, a young Italian-American, is, in many ways, his antithesis, a thief and a drifter, yet, both men possess a generosity of spirit and a sense of responsibility for others, which Alpine realizes by the novels end, through Bobers example, can be the foundation of a meaningful life. Bober is unsuccessful as a storekeeper, at least in part, because of his scrupulous honesty. He explains to Alpine how some grocers would dilute quality merchandise with low grade, yet still sell the product at the top price. When Alpine asks why Bober did not do this, he replies with surprise, "Why should I steal from my customers? Do they steal from me?" (Malamud 152). Yet, stealing is so much a ...

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