Bread: A Narrative Fiction

In the novel Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska the Smolinsky family immigrate to America for a better life. The Smolinsky sisters are expected to work really long hours and bring in their wages to help pay for food, and house wages while the father, Reb Smolinsky, stays home and studies the Holy Torah instead of working and supporting his family. Throughout the book, Reb Smolinsky’s goal is to marry off his daughters to an ideal man so they can give him money to thank them for all he has done for them and he even calls himself the “Matchmaker.” According to the Reb’s beliefs, women are expected to cook, clean, and take care of their husbands while the husband are the “Bread Givers” who provides for his wife and children. He says “What’s a woman

Symbolism: generally is an object representing another to give it an entirely different meaning that is much deeper and more significant. On page 56 the prisoners skim the ground for a piece of bread. The bread in this situation represents hope prisoners have. Hope to live, hope to eat, and hope to make it out alive. On pages 24-26 the readers see that Mrs. Schächter goes insane during the depression, she starts screaming she sees flames on the train, the flames represent the soon to come loss of faith and loss of hope for survival in some cases. Symbolism helps readers see the deeper and more emotional meaning of Wiesel's memoir.

Then Mary goes into an old room in the house that she had seen when she was looking for Collin. She finds the key to the garden inside that room and goes inside the garden.

What’s the most common adversity of an immigrant? Struggling to cope with embedding oneself into being servant to two masters. The term “masters” used here are figurative objects where two distinct form of societal expectation collide with each other and one can’t completely ignore either side. Sarah, in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers, as an immigrant, faces adversity to implement her personal pursuits in assimilating with the American Culture against her native culture where the father plays the authoritarian and dictatorial rule in the family. Being servant to two master brings one nowhere but Sarah fights on her stand and brings out the outcome to be otherwise.

And now and then in the afternoon she would burst through the door holding flowers and cookies and smelling fresh like the outdoors. She would stay for a moment or two and chat about with the children about the wonderful weather or her garden. The children would show her the pictures that they had drawn and ask her questions about their mother. Which she could never answer, but she would try.

“Forgive me for not noticing you Isaac.” She said while chewing. “I’m still not fully awake yet, how did you sleep?”

Anzia Yezierska’s 1925 novel Bread Givers ends with Sara Smolinsky’s realization that her father’s tyrannical behavior is the product of generations of tradition from which he is unable to escape. Despite her desire to embrace the New World she has just won her place in, she attempts to reconcile with her father and her Jewish heritage. The novel is about the tension inherent in trying to fit Old and New worlds together: Reb tries to make his Old World fit into the new, while Sara tries to make her New World fit into the Old. Sara does not want to end up bitter and miserable like her sisters, but she does not want to throw her family away all together. Her struggle is one of trying to convince her patriarchal family to accept her as an

One of the significant features of Jewish history throughout many centuries was migration. From the ancient pre-Roman times to medieval Spain to the present days the Jews were expelled from the countries they populated, were forced out by political, cultural and religious persecution, and sometimes were motivated to leave simply to escape economic hardship and to find better life for themselves and for their children. One of the interesting pages of Jewish history was a massive migration from Eastern Europe to America in the period between 1870 an 1920. In that period more than two million Jews left their homes in Russia, Poland, Galicia, and Romania and came to the New World. The heaviest

She spends most of her time reading, drawing, or walking around. Often, she visits her neighbors, the Swangers. She sees a dark silhouette on a forest path while looking into a well. Soon after, Ruby, a lady named Ruby is sent by the Swangers to help Ada tend to her farm.

The 1920s was a hard and painstaking era in American history. Many family's throughout New York lived in absolute poverty and saved week to week just to make enough to eat and pay the rent. Many Immigrants flooded the streets desperate for work while living conditions were harsh and many starved. This is just the case of the novel Bread Givers, written by Anzia Yezierska. In this story we follow Sarah Smolinsky, an ambiguous independent Jewish girl "trapped" by her religious traditions. Her story unfolds as she breaks away from her controlling parents and moves to work and go to school for hopes of being a school teacher. Her life is not easy and she must endure countless sacrifices just to get by. With the determination of

She goes to her brother waking him and urging him to come with her back into the woods. After an hour of walking with her brother, klaus, came upon a scratches in trees and at least 20 huts. The two start to run away, but as soon as they turn around the natives were there to stop them. The natives instruct the two children to take them back to the new camp.

She then goes to another store, for gloves, a store for shoes and then goes to a higher class restaurant for the first time. She does describe herself as feeling fancy, basically, which is different from the

Choices define what being a human is. How a person reacts to decision making, reflects the character and personality that a person possesses. Deciding the appropriate action for a tremendously difficult situation always results in one party disagreeing with the route taken. In the short story “Bread” a young girl with very limited life experience is forced to make a decision that could impact the life of her young sister. The article “A Framework for Thinking Ethically” depicts several strategies for making ethical decisions that could be applied to this situation. The virtue approach alongside the utilitarian approach could be applied to this specific situation.

Bread Givers was written by Anzia Yezierska and published in 1925. In the novel, the Smolinsky family had immigrated to America looking for a better future and escaping from the pogroms in their native country. The family moved to New York City where they live in a tenement on Lower East Side of the city. The book focuses in Sara Smolinsky who is the youngest of the Smolinsky daughters. She wants to be independent, so more than anything she wants to live her own life. At a young age, Sara is smart enough to understand the unhappiness and frustration that her and her family go through poverty and tradition of the old world. A sense of purpose is spread in her mins to achieve freedom, so she rebels against the values of her family’s traditions

A recipe that has been honored for many years, This is the story about how a woman's cornbread recipe causes her family to travel far and wide. No matter what situation they may be in, or no matter how far away they may be, My Mother's cornbread was always the deal breaker. My family could be out of state, at work, it did not matter where they were, when my mother called they would come. My Mom started making cornbread just before I was born so my family say. My family kept telling my Mom how good her cornbread was so she kept making it! My Mom always takes her time and shows love and compassion while making her cornbread. Whatever problems were going on, or if you just were feeling down, my mothers cornbread could always fix it. With family