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Billy Ray Valentine, Louis Winthorpe And The Duke Bothers

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The main characters in the movie trading places are Billy Ray Valentine, Louis Winthorpe and the Duke Bothers. All four men have a very distinct language and how they present themselves. The way Valentine speaks would suggest that he is not well educated and that he does not care what people think of him. He would say “I ain’t got time to be sitting in this cell with you.” When you use words like ain’t and cause those are called improper grammar. While Winthrope and the Duke bothers come off as very professional and proper. They speak very high intelligence, make you believe that they are well educated, and they are very high class men. In the movie, Randolph Duke is obsessed with science journals. These magazines that he reads talk a lot …show more content…

While Valentine was taking Winthrope job and home, Winthrope would be placed in the worst eniroment and that it would turn him into a criminal. The Dukes framed Winthorpe for dealing drugs, then fired him, had him arrested and then because all that had happened his fiancé left him. As all of this was happening, Valentine was taken off the streets and put into Winthropes house with his bulter. Throughout the experiment Winthrope decreased futher into squalor, while Valentine becomes more successful. Then on Christmas Eve the dukes bothers were having a Christmas party at their firm. Winthrope descised himself as Santa Clase and came to plant drugs in Valentine office. He got cought in action by Valentine and the Duke Brothers. Then Winthrope ran frantically throughout the building waving a gun around. With Winthrope going crazy, Randolph won the bet. The bothers decied to settle the bet in a restroom, not knowing they revaled their plan to Valentine who was in the restroom. Their bet was placed on one dollor, so they runiened one man’s life over a dollor. Now fulluy aware what the brother’s did, Valentine went to Winthorpe to plot their revenge against the Dukes. They fingured out that the Dukes are going to steal the crop reports. So Winthrope and Valentine are able to steal the plans form the Dukes before they give them a fake crop

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