" Outliers "
( The Story of Success )
by Malcolm Gladwell

Chunk #1

Gladwell begins his nonfiction novel " Outliers" by providing a story about what encouraged him to write about success and how people become successdul. He defines an outliers as " something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body . . . a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of 6he sample." Throughout the first chunkhe provides various anedotes to support his thesis that no one hasa become successful without a support background. In otherwords , there's no such this as "coming from nothing to something". Gladwell use of anecdotal evidence to support his claim helps keep him credible as a writer.

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