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The main protagonist in Bringing Down the House, Kevin Lewis, is your typical MIT grad student. This ethnic man finished at MIT with straight A's, he obtained an electrical engineer major, and he covered all the premed requisites. How much better could a 20 year old's resume get? In the first chapter of this novel Kevin is characterized as being shy, edgy, and genius. He was at the casino and as he sat at the poker table, he "tried to hide his trembling hands" (Mezrich, 2003, 1). The mannerisms that Kevin shows throughout the first chapter force me to believe that he is extremely nervous about something and in the end of the chapter I realized that there was something for him to be nervous about. In chapter two and all the chapters following,

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