Compare and contrast brothers Valentin and Urbain. In what ways are they similar? How are they different?

Compare and contrast the ways in which Noemie and Newman earn their "fortunes". What is similar in the way that the two have risen to the top? How are the two different in their desires to achieve their own individual ideas of success?

Compare and contrast the ways in which Noemie and Newman earn their "fortunes". What is similar in the way that the two have risen to the top? How are the two different in their desires to achieve their own individual ideas of success?

Do you believe things might have turned out differently had Newman pressed the issue with the letter that proved Urbain and his mother killed the father? Do you believe the Bellegarde's were ever truly afraid of Newman and the information that...