nce and of the way the sins of the past rise up to haunt us, it is a thriller of exquisite measure, a stark tale of stalker and prey. Thomas Babington Levy, Babe, is a former Rhoder Scholar now a gifted graduate student from Columbia University.He spends every free minute running and daydreaming of becoming a marathon man as well as an intellectual of staggering accomplishments. Champion and Ph. D. then the baldheaded man appears from out of nowhere and pushed Babe on to a different course, one that leads him from his ordered life into another of uncertainty and peril. His brother, who had been gone from his side since his father killed himself, had returned. He brought with him problems, problems that have no solutions. Babe will be the victim of a man who is afraid of losing millions of dollars worth of diamonds. He has to kill Babe's brother and then after knowing that Babe knew, he tried to kill him to. Babe looks for help with his girlfriend, but it only happens that his girlfriend is with the bad man and she works for them. She died trying to protect Babe. Babe killed all the men working for the bald man and he tried to take the diamonds away form him. After getting the diamonds he threw them in the water and they got lost in the river, all the killing had ended and Babe was free. The bald man stayed looking for the diamonds and he was killed by the people, after finding he had killed millions of Jewish with Hitler in WWII.Marathon Man, was a crazy story with a sequence of drama and suspense. Every page had meaning through out the book. William Goldman made this book with a perfect A. He included irony, conflicts, symbolism, illusion, and may others. In which I will disclose later on the next stage of the analysis.The tone of the story was cold. Tone is a term designating the attitudes towards the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work. Examples will be difficult to explain in phases straight fr...
