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Michael achieves his goals through the examples set by his brave, feisty mother, and with the help of his parish priest, Father Heaney, whose experience as a chaplain in Europe has given him a wider sense of human tragedy and compassion. Rabbi Judah Hirsch, who introduces the boy not only to a more transcendent moral code and ethic of compassion, but also to a wider world of language, literature, and life. In a neighborhood where Michael observes that virtually no one ever graduates from high school, he develops a thirst for learning (and for good grades) that promises to propel him beyond the world of the steelyard and the docks.