The Necessity of Partnership to Achieve Greatness Within City of Thieves

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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." -- (Van Gogh) The building block for almost any accomplishment requires some sort of external assistance. City of Thieves by David Benioff is a tale about how two petty and solitary characters are thrown together to achieve an incredible feat. By themselves, the two fellows would have had no chance whatsoever of completing the task set forth for them, but together they form a much stronger bond, and are able to overcome hardship and grow personally. Throughout history and literature are examples of men and women collaborating and achieving something fantastic. Some combinations include Watson and Crick, discoverers of the double helix structure of human DNA, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee from The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R Tolkien, the famous explorers Lewis and Clark, and Russian convicts Lev and Kolya from City of Thieves. Collaboration is a necessity to achieve greatness. By collaborating, personal growth occurs in both parties.

James Watson and Francis Crick are two famous scientists who through their partnership discovered the “…novel feature of the structure [double helix] in a manner in which the two chains are held together…” (Watson and Crick 737). Although the information pertinent to their discovery was floating around the scientific world, it was scattered and not very cohesive. The two men collaborated and summarized much of the data that was available and published their findings as their own: “Both argumentatively and stylistically, then, Watso...

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