Papa, Please. The World Summary

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On page 176 to 177, “Papa, please…the world”, during the quarrel between Aryeh and his son, their clash reveals a conflict between art and religion. When Aryeh came back home from Europe, he was dismayed by his discovery of his son’s goy drawings. He regarded art as a “waste of [Asher’s] life” and is ignoble to their religion which caused Asher to justify his will to draw. As a father, Aryeh wants to do what’s best for Asher and does not want his son to be a goy. He tries to direct his son to follow in his own footsteps as an emissary for the Rebbe, but he did not consider that his son had found his purpose in life. Focused on his son’s studies and the path that he should take that Aryeh did not recognize that his love to travel for Rebbe was the same as his …show more content…

When Aryeh came back home from Europe, he was dismayed by his discovery of his son’s goy drawings. He regarded art as a “waste of [Asher’s] life” and is ignoble to their religion which caused Asher to justify his will to draw. As a father, Aryeh wants to do what’s best for Asher and does not want his son to be a goy. He tries to direct his son to follow in his own footsteps as an emissary for the Rebbe, but he did not consider that his son had found his purpose in life. Focused on his son’s studies and the path that he should take that Aryeh did not recognize that his love to travel for Rebbe was the same as his son’s ardor for art. Every time Aryeh discovered that his son is drawing, his rage blinds him from seeing his son’s gift. By denying Asher’s passion, Aryeh doesn’t fully comprehend his son and is pushing away from him. Later this hurts his family, especially affects his wife who is being torn between father and son. Although he did made an attempt to try to understand Asher by asking him to explain some of the concepts the critics were writing

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