Bringing down the house is a non fiction novel by Ben Mezrich that tells the story of 6 M.I.T students who organized a card counting team which started their Las Vegas legacy. While explaining the adventure he successfully summarizes the life of Kevin Lewis with his various uses of imagery, descriptive diction, and ability to clearly establish his writing style. Therefore Mezrich expressed his purpose and reason for writing the bestseller.
My personal favorite portion of the book was the very beginning, I felt as though the intensity of this section is what pulled me into the novel and forced me to keep reading. Mezrich starts off the story by saying “There were three empty martini glasses on the table in front of him and he was leaning forward on both elbows, his gaze focused on his cards”(pg.1). With this he immediately presents his …show more content…
I believe the author accepted the offer and wrote the book in order to tell the story of Kevin Lewis and express the reality of living a double life. Mezrich conveyed that although Kevin was a student at M.I.T, he was clearly not satisfied with his life there, which pushed him to start a new one in Las Vegas. But his experience quickly came to end due to his inability to maintain both lives. For instance when he was told “Fisher and Martinez are starting a new team. I don't think it's anything personal, they just want to make some changes-”(pg.230). This led to the sudden downfall of his double life, spurring the idea that he could not have it all. I consider Mezrich’s argument to be successful because as Kevin bounced between a blackjack career and a medical career in the end he could not acquire both and satisfy both himself and his father. Proving he was unable to manage a double
My personal favorite portion of the book was the very beginning, I felt as though the intensity of this section is what pulled me into the novel and forced me to keep reading. Mezrich starts off the story by saying “There were three empty martini glasses on the table in front of him and he was leaning forward on both elbows, his gaze focused on his cards”(pg.1). With this he immediately presents his …show more content…
I believe the author accepted the offer and wrote the book in order to tell the story of Kevin Lewis and express the reality of living a double life. Mezrich conveyed that although Kevin was a student at M.I.T, he was clearly not satisfied with his life there, which pushed him to start a new one in Las Vegas. But his experience quickly came to end due to his inability to maintain both lives. For instance when he was told “Fisher and Martinez are starting a new team. I don't think it's anything personal, they just want to make some changes-”(pg.230). This led to the sudden downfall of his double life, spurring the idea that he could not have it all. I consider Mezrich’s argument to be successful because as Kevin bounced between a blackjack career and a medical career in the end he could not acquire both and satisfy both himself and his father. Proving he was unable to manage a double