In addition to angering his father, Asher paints images that also his mother and the Jewish community are unhappy with. These pictures started with nudes and later lead to drawing his mother on a crucifix. When his parents see this in the exhibit, they immediately leave
He is depressed, and in need of someone to talk to and to spend time with. His brother, Allie, was very important to him. When Allie died, Holden was a wreck, and is still affected by it today. He is also mad about his other brother, D.B., for leaving for Hollywood to become a “big time writer.” Holden is severely depressed by prior events in his life, and has no one to turn to for help and advice. In conclusion, the course of events that happened prior to Holden’s attending Pencey had changed who Holden was negatively, and this is apparent in his lack of attempt to become
Joel was the son of Rabbi Hezron, which shows what Joel would be one day. In Ancient Israel, the son(s) of a rabbi or a “noble” would go to the synagogue school to learn how to be a rabbi. While in the synagogue school Joel met Daniel, who would, in the future, make Joel very happy for not being cruel like the other boys. Joel even tells Daniel “I’m going to go on to be a rabbi, probably.” By the way of being a rabbi’s son and going to the synagogue school, Joel knew Daniel who would help Joel start the “band of boys.” While Joel was in the synagogue school and not seeing eye-to-eye on most anything with Daniel, Joel was learning how to be a rabbi, and getting ready for the future by “being” a soldier. Joel’s and Daniel’s main difference was that the rabbi’s used Joel as an example for the other boys on how to act during school.
A large portion of Holden’s depression comes from failing multiple times. He has flunked almost every class he has taken except English. When he fails, his classes, he does not care about it and goes on with his life. Holden is kicked out of Pence Prep because of his low grades and his inability to take school seriously. This quote shows that he does not care about his future in education.
He wanted to protect him from the bad influences, but he was only scared of his son’s gift because he didn’t know what it meant for him. He didn’t know that painting made Asher happy, sometimes. Growing up he began to accept it little by little. “He seemed unable to believe it. Almost despite himself, his dark eyes glittered with pride.” When he began to realize how famous and important his son was becoming he tried to accept the gift and him.
"Now? After you have been exposed?" "Exposed?" She shook her head, reeling, her heart pounding. She felt sick.
He longed for a clearer understanding of his father, but the most interaction that Art had with his father was through these interviews for the book. On his drive to his father’s house, Art told Francoise, “I know this is insane, but I somehow wish I had been in Auschwitz with my parents so I could really know what they lived through! . . .
Free will means that God does not have any set destiny for us. If God were to create free agents that could only choose good, that would mean that God laid out a destiny of good for all agents. Even though God is omniscient, free will is still possible because while God may know the choices we are going to make, he is not the cause of them. Since God does not choose or cause our destiny, we still have free will. In response to the option in which God creates a world with free agents and no evil, a world with no evil would mean a world with no good, so it would be impossible for God to create a free agents that only choose good, since evil does not exist.
Nobody knows what rewards or consequences there are to reap when we die so there’s really no reason that we can’t throw the request right out the window. Obviously if you were to sacrifice your child under the notion that a divine entity mandated you to do it to prove your faithfulness to him, you would be thrown in the loony bin. If this would be the case in the present, why is it justified in the past? Sure, the crime laws weren’t as strict and it was more common in eastern cultures to sacrifice animals to achieve a purpose or please a god, but is it morally right? If my neighbor were burning his child at the stake in his front yard, I would most likely intervene, but if he were doing it under the context of
He’s living a life with huge disappointments, and expresses it through art. Which is also the only thing he’s good at in school. He is so pensioned about it, that he ratter would buy some paint, instead of lunch. He doesn’t cares about his body, about his health, and for those reasons not his life. 3) Through one of his works, he tells how he fells like a child trapped inside a broken bottle with a woman looking the other way, and watching a shadow of a man.