Andy Robertson
Dr. Matthews
9/18/15
At the end of Bread Givers Sarah’s father, Reb, moves in with Hugo and Sara. With her father’s ailing health, Sara hesitantly agreed with Hugo to let Reb move in with them. Hugo believes that the addition of Reb will be enlightening for his and Sara’s home. Sara, on the other hand, is worried that her father’s constant presence in her home will bring back her past life that she has worked so hard to get away from. In my opinion, both Hugo and Sara have points as to why Reb moving in with them will be negative or positive. Hugo believes that Reb will add something virtuous to his and Sara’s home. I think that Hugo wants Reb to move in, because he wishes to further educate himself about things and traditions
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I think that Sara is just in not wanting her father to move in with her and Hugo. Hugo wants Sara’s father to move in with them even though he has only met Sara’s father once. I do not think that Hugo knows to the full extent how much of a jerk Sara’s father can be. Sara, however, had to grow up with her father, and she knows all too well how ill-mannered and rude her father can be. For example, the way her father treated her and her sisters was eccentric to say the least. However, Sara has most likely told Hugo about the way her father was to her and her family. But Hugo only heard about her father’s actions through stories; it is very different to be there, and experience it first hand as Sara did. That being said, I think that Reb moving in with her Hugo is going to be a constant reminder to Sara of a world that she has worked her whole life to get out of. I also think that Sara thinks her father will only be critical of the way that she and Hugo live. I think that Sara believes that her father is incapable of changing his ways. She thinks that her father is eternally set in his ways, and there is no changing him, or even finding a compromise of some nature. I also think that Sara is afraid of once again becoming compliant with the tyrannical type rule of her father, also that her father will have a negative effect on Hugo, a negative effect in that the teachings and opinions of her father will influence the opinions of Hugo. Sara wants be progressive in her life, as opposed to being like her sisters, stuck in a marriage they wanted no part of, and leading a miserable life with no independence. I believe that Sara thinks that living with her father will be detrimental to her growth as person, and her relationship with Hugo. I also think that Sara felt bad for her father and wanted to take care of him, but not to the extent of him moving in
... her goal. Just like most first generation immigrants, the family went through dreadful poverty. Anzia Yezierska did an excellent job in describing what life was like for Sarah’s family, which was a sample of what life was like for immigrants. As an illustration, when Mashah, who was worked went out and bought herself a toothbrush and a small towel for thirty-cents so she can have her own towel. The rest of the family became horrified. It was like, how dare she spend thirty-cents on a toothbrush and towel, when the rest of the family is starving and they needed that money to buy food? The father supposes it is his absolute right to expect that the four daughters either will never leave home thereby supporting him forever or they would leave home and marry somebody rich, who will then support him forever. The women in the Smolinsky family were the breadwinners.
Book three of the novel “Bread Givers,” written by Anzia Yezierska, is set in New York. The story revolves around Sara Smolinsky, her family, and the struggles they face in their daily lives. The main conflict in book three is Sara’s guilt for leaving her family and pursuing her career without seeing them for six years. For example, when she comes back to see her family, she realizes she is too late. Her mother is dying of a stroke.
... while she still has time (257). She fails at first, thinking her father is “bereft of his senses” in his second marriage (258). She believes this despite the Torah saying, “a man must have a wife to keep him pure, otherwise his eyes are tempted by evil” (259). Gradually, Sara begins to understand her father: the only thing he has in life is his fanatical adherence to traditions; “In a world where all is changed, he alone remained unchanged” (296). Reb has a deep and true fear of God, to expect him to change beliefs that he believes have been handed down by God, beliefs that have persisted for thousands of years, is illogical. It is impossible to reconcile fully the New World with the Old, and it is the responsibility of the New to be the more flexible, unfair as it may be.
Sarah and her mother are sought out by the French Police after an order goes out to arrest all French Jews. When Sarah’s little brother starts to feel the pressures of social injustice, he turns to his sister for guidance. Michel did not want to go with the French Police, so he asks Sarah to help him hide in their secret cupboard. Sarah does this because she loves Michel and does not want him to be discriminated against. Sarah, her mother, and her father get arrested for being Jewish and are taken to a concentration camp just outside their hometown. Sarah thinks Michel, her beloved brother, will be safe. She says, “Yes, he’d be safe there. She was sure of it. The girl murmured his name and laid her palm flat on the wooden panel. I’ll come back for you later. I promise” (Rosnay 9). During this time of inequality, where the French were removing Sarah and her mother just because they were Jewish, Sarah’s brother asked her for help. Sarah promised her brother she would be back for him and helped him escape his impending arrest. Sarah’s brother believed her because he looks up to her and loves her. As the story continues, when Sarah falls ill and is in pain, she also turns to her father for comfort, “at one point she had been sick, bringing up bile, moaning in pain. She had felt her father’s hand upon her, comforting her” (Rosnay 55).
Upon arrival to Yasmina’s apartment, Sara, Abdul Samee’s mother, is discontent with the home. When she learns that Yasmina and her father are refugees, Sara wants to leave immediately. She believes that a refugee is not suitable for her son and that their family is too high in stature to be marrying below themselves. Yasmina’s father also reveals that he is unemployed due to his dental credentials not transferring to the United States. This adds to Sara’s discomfort with her son potentially being in a relationship with Yasmina. Abdul Samee’s father states that since Abdul Samee is going through a divorce he is damaged goods; thus, none of the upper-class families would have him, and they must settle for what they can
...oreover, Hugo’s eager acceptance of Sara’s father and his cultural traditions draws Sara full circle into reconciliation with both her father and the traditional Jewish culture he personifies.
...nt in such simple things further emphasizes the various hardships she had faced while growing up. In a way, she does adopt an American identity by taking advantage of what America had to offer. There was nothing wrong in Sara appreciating the riches of what awaited her outside of Hester Street. In the end, Sara does not sacrifice her European roots in exchange for an American way of life. Sara simply fuses the two cultures to create a new “Sara” who was successful because of her hard work and dedication to stay true to her dreams. This is proven by the fact that throughout all her father had put her through, she still wanted her father to be involved in her life by taking him into her home. She even allowed her significant other Hugo Seelig, to ask Reb if he could teach him Hebrew and their religion. In the end of the novel, Sara states that “it wasn’t just [her] father” whose shadow was still upon her, “but the generations who made [her] father whose weight was still upon [her]”. Sara is proof that even though she may have become assimilated to a New World, the Old World will always be a part of who she is.
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