om the book, so in exchanged to it a whole book summary of the tone in which this book was narrated. From the beginning things were clear, how mans dreams of becoming a champion were been killed by the selfish attitudes of his brother. The way it was expressed page through page made this story tone very cold. William Goldman stereotyped each of the characters. A stereotype is a commonly held or oversimplified mental picture or judgment of a person, a race, an issue, al land or art. Babe was described as a typical dreamer, happy but never aquatinting it. The strong man is the one who thinks not the one who looks at the moon, Babe said, I always wanted to be someone but I should have been more specific. Not only did Goldman use stereotypes but also mixed with his irony it formed a team for his story. Irony is the unexpected, a situation in which things happen that were not expected to happen. Babe was a graduate from college with dreams, a girlfriend, friends, and a good attitude towards life. He would run for fun and ended up running for his life, fighting for what he once thought was and had no meaning in his life, his brother.Babes brother was a low life and would work for the government. He would kill all whom got in the way of the secret corporations of the government. Babe, a good person, hated his brother and vowed never to do anything for him. It ended up that Babe almost gave his life for a cause he never believed in before.Babe was the protagonist, or chief character in the story of Marathon Man. He was the good one, the one who lived when it was expected he would die, the one who survived the unknown and the one who always beat the odds. One minute he was in the hands of the enemy, waiting for his death, and the next running for his life, free. His significance was to be free within himself and leave the past in the past.The mood of the story was very difficult to set your mind on. Mood is a state of mind in wh...
