Elie mentions asking his father to find him a master to teach him Kabbalah, to which he replied, “you’re too young for that. Maimonides said it was only at thirty that one had the right to venture into the perilous world of mysticism. You must first study the basic subjects within your own understanding.” (Wiesel 4). As a reader, you begin to understand the traditional aspect of their relationship. But their relationship begins to transform when the German soldiers arrive to take them away to concentration camps.
During the Holocaust week I attended the Wednesday twelve o’clock speech with Robette Gerbsi, on March twenty eight. She talked about her family that was made up of her mother, father, and older brother who had lived together at the time. Their family had lived in France, and were Jewish. Her father has started a clothing business, and had worked very hard over the years rising quickly to become a very good one. It had started slowly, as they first made the Jew’s wear badges stating they were Jewish, and either a boy or girl.
As Mr. Summers reads off an alphabetical list of names, the heads of each household come forward to select a folded slip of paper from an old black wooden box. Bill Hutchinson draws the paper with the black mark on it, and people immediately begin speculating about which Hutchinson will actually "win" the drawing. Each member of Bill's family then draws a slip from the box. Tessie selects the paper with the black mark on it, and she vigorously protests the unfairness of the drawing. The
Luis’ student-teaching experience came as a realization to him not only in a positive way but in a negative way as well. Now that he finished his degree and credential work he least expected to be presented with a full-time teaching position in his hometown starting at $29,000 a year. As he least expected to allow his friend to talk him into a management trainee position at Sunset National it was another surprise to find that the large bank chose him 15 other candidates. This opportunity would give him a slightly better pay starting at $38,000 a year. In addition to his pay at the bank when he’s promoted to loan officer he would be receiving an additional $3,000 raise.
“Bread Givers” Sara’s father, Moses is an old fashioned, self centered selfish man who brings his beliefs, culture, religion, and costumes to the New World. Coming from Poland as Jewish immigrants to a neighborhood in the Lower East Side tenement in New York City, Moses an Orthodox rabbi, only worries are about the study of the Torah. Even though they have no money to pay rent, and his entire family is struggling for money to buy a piece of bread, he puts no effort into overcoming the financial difficulties his four daughters and wife are living. Nevertheless, Sara and her four sisters aspire to the American dream. My understanding of gender roll is that Moses underestimates women and thinks they are inferior to men.
From the first moment he met his piano teacher- Eduard Keller, he was quick to judge based on his appearance “Had he spruced himself up especially to meet me? I was childish enough … to think it likely.”, and the way Keller spoke. Paul puts the label on him that ‘he is a Nazi’ and doesn’t give himself the chance to get to know Keller when he first meets him. By the end of the novel Paul learns to appreciate the lessons that he had with Keller throughout his adolescent year and matures to respect what Keller had done for him. Paul illustrates love towards many characters throughout the novel.
Jewish education was compulsory for the Orthodox; they had Hebrew lessons in the mornings and English ones in the afternoons. “Danny attended the small yeshiva established by his fathers. Outside of the Williamsburg area, in Crown Heights, I attended the yeshiva my father taught.” Already you see how the setting of the homelands influenced the fathers, who as rabbis would create the settings for their people in New York, influencing the development of the children and students. “This yeshiva [Reuven’s father’s] was somewhat looked down upon by the students of other Jewish parochial schools of Brooklyn; it offered more English subjects than the required minimum, and it taught its Jewish subjects in Hebrew rather than Yiddish. Most of its students were children of immigrant Jews who preferred to regard themselves as having been emancipated from the fenced-off ghetto mentality typical of other Jewish parochial schools in Brooklyn.” Those that went to Reb Saunder’s yeshiva were the children of the Russian Hasidic Jews, the boys who were all the smaller, less-bearded versions of their fathers, who, in turn, were the less powerful versions of Saunders, their rabbi.
A very big man with a grey beard and hair was asking for directions and said “I go from Seattle to San Diego and back every year”(241) and Elisa responds with, “That sounds like a nice kind of way to live”(214). Elisa shows interest in traveling as a way of life. The tinker lays his eyes on the chrysanthemum bed and begins making conversation about them and Elisa is expressed like this from the book, “the irritation and resistance melted from Elisa’s face”(241). Elisa annoyed disturbance from the tinker has now vanished that he is interested in her kind of work. Unlike when Henry makes notice of them back when he says they’re going to dinner, “You’ve got a gift with things” (239) doesn’t excite or please Elissa like the tinker
Benjamin Franklin facts • He was born on January 17, 1706 His mother wanted him to attend school with the clergy. Due to financial problems, Benjamin could continue schooling only for two years. He was a student of the Boston Latin School. He did not graduate. • Benjamin courted Deborah Read in 1724 and wanted to marry her.
(She shakes her head.) I am being careful of him ! A freshman in college talking to a counselor toward the end of his first year : “ One week I find myself studying hard , working on the school paper, going to a talk on foreign affairs. The next week I am boozing it up, looking around for sex partner and playing cards all day with the boys. It’s like being two different people who don’t even know each other !