Bread Givers Summary Paper

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

Sara watched each of her sisters give up their loves for their Father and marry someone who gave money to him Sara knew that was not what she wanted for herself. It was one of the numerous causes that made her leave home. Being a young woman of marrying age in the 1920s, and being in poverty meant that someone would be lucky to be married and have children with a roof over their head. Sara wanted to have an education; she wanted to learn or herself, not to have a husband teach her what she needs to know. Seeing how her sister is in marriages caused to fulfill her dreams of wanting a real love because Sara felt that is she was educated maybe one someone will love her for being smart and not just being a female.

Sara's father wanted to control everybody else's lives, in his family, but he did not want anyone telling him how to do things. He felt that he should be able to control the family spendings even though he did not earn a penny. He went against his wife's request and used every penny of their savings to buy the store. His wife asked him, "Promise me that you won't pay out the money till I come to see what you buy." (113). He went ahead and bought the store without letting his wife come down to see it first like he had promised her. He made a huge mistake then, just as he had with his daughters. He did not pick a good husband for any of his daughters. He was fooled not only by the store owner but also by the daughters' husbands. The reason he made all these mistakes is because he would not listen to anyone's advice. If he had listened to his wife, he would not have bought the store because she would have been with him, and she would have noticed something was wrong because she was already suspicious. She says, "Does he really ask only four hundred dollars for all this?...Ask him to give you a pencil to count up all the goods there is in stock." (114). She has more sense about business then he does, but he gets to be in control of all their money. Today, women have more of a say in what goes on with the financial part of the family as well as with who they are going to

There are numerous ethnographic surrealist films that have an intriguing relationship to aesthetics and politics. A film that exemplifies this relationship is “Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan” (Land Without Bread). This film is only 27-minutes and is directed by the infamous Luis Bunuel in 1933. Bunuel was a Spanish filmmaker of the 1920’s to the 1970’s. He is often attributed to being one of the major contributors to the surrealist movement of the 1920’s. “Ethnographic surrealism is a utopian construct, a statement at once about past and future possibilities for cultural analysis.”(Clifford, 119) ‘Land Without Bread’ has a clear connection between politics and aesthetics. It uses many techniques, specifically

Sarah's been hiding everything about her life from everyone just because she's afraid that her father would hurt the people around her so she put up a shield around herself so that no one could ever find about the truth so decided that she'd hide and run away eventually and not even say anything to her friends. Sarah has pretty much hidden behind everything she can just to prevent anyone from knowing that her dad burned her when she was a little kid. The only real time she shows courage is when they get home from Reno and she hears that her dad tried to hurt Eric and she was upset and acted like she was going to hurt

By comparison, Liberty Villages’ securitization isn’t to limit istances of violence like the Entertainment District but instead like the Entertainment District limit the hosting of populations and business that the Liberty Village BIA deems as a deviation from their fostering of creative industries (Cantugal 2009; Lin 2016; Peyroux & Glascze 2012). For example, one of the last manufacturing businesses in Liberty Village, Canada Bread, left in 2013; previous to its closure, residents expressed irritation due to the factories noise and shipments (Cantugal et al 2009; Flavelle 2010). While Canada Bread’s closure has little effect on creative class residents, this will result in the loss of 435 jobs which predominantly employed workers from Parkdale

Steinbeck’s book, Of Mice and Men, was strongly influenced by the dust bowl in the 1930’s. In the 1930’s, there was a drought in the western region of the United States. This lead to farmers and workers migrating from place to place to find work. This constant migration is what earned them the name “migrant workers.” In Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie were migrant workers who dreamed of owning their own farm one day, but they had to work various jobs to earn the money for it. In hopes of achieving their dream, they land a job in Salinas Valley, which is also Steinbeck’s hometown. Lennie, who was mentally handicapped, always got himself into some sort of trouble; in the end all of their

One story that inspired me in this book was Meredith O’ Neill Hassett who was the schoolteacher in Harlem. While she would teach her class she would notice a few things about her students. In foremost, her students would not have clean clothing and one night when she had dinner with her friends she decided to discuss this issue. From there she and her friends decided to create an organization called “Secret Smiles” which was called “Secret Smiles” to help her students out with household necessities by anonymously donating it to them. This story touched my heart because about three hundred families received materials like “dishes, sheets, silverware, beds, and tables.” All the important necessity a child needs in order to grow up living a happy and well-focused life. Mainly their main goal was to “empower these families to help themselves” and doing it in a very easy way. I enjoyed reading this story because if a child was in need of these material they would not have to go through a hard time in order for receiving them. All they had to

Currently, I am serving in a mission field, my campus, as each day I have been given access to academic scholars, staff, and students who represent different cultures and religions. Our campus is a revolving door that allows for opportunities to share the gospel. While accepting Christ in my late 30’s I did not understand His love or forgiveness for many years. It is through these truths of His love that I can speak with conviction of His love for all people. Aided through the leading of the Holy Spirts, and the life lessons learned, I can speak of the saving grace of God, His love and His desire for all to know Jesus as Lord, and Savior. It is through God’s guidance and His Word that allows me to share His promises to those who are lost and

Before creating House, Whiteread had previously exhibited her sculpture Ghost, a plaster cast of the inside of a room in a Victorian house, at the Chisenhale Gallery in 1990. House was made as a similar work on a larger scale, including not just a single room, but an entire house. Artangel, a London-based arts organization, commissioned the work. It was contracted that the selected house would have been already scheduled for demolition and that the piece would be temporary, the structure had to be free-standing so it would be visible from all sides.

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Sarah knew that she wasn’t happy being married to Andrew, but she stated, in the novel, that the only reason she married him is because her mother didn’t want her to. The negative side was when Andrew found out, he wouldn’t talk to sarah for days. He packed up his stuff and moved out for a bit, leaving Sarah to care for their son, Charlie, by herself. She begged and begged for him to come back, eventually he did. That’s when she suggested that they go on holiday in Nigeria. One of Sarah’s coworkers told her about going there, so that’s where they went to try and mend their marriage. While they were walking in the beach, Little Bee and her sister, Nkiruka, had ran up to them and asked them for help. Sarah and Andrew didn’t know it at the time, but there was an oil war going on in Little Bee’s village. So, Little Bee and Nkiruka were being hunted by men who didn’t want anyone to know what’s going on in

It all started when the bakery downtown bought some bread mix from a mysterious man that they thought was trustworthy. She baked the bread and she thought it smelled funny. But then, her friend, Daniel Mcall ate it and said it tasted weird. But, when he brought it home his dog went crazy! Liam, his dog who was a puppy was going nuts! He scared him so he dropped the bread and he ate it all. But, when the bread was analyzed, by Dr. Deacon he found that there was traces of human bone fragments and flesh. That’s when they called Kale, Derek Kale.

This excerpt titled “Homemade Bread” is a story about Shelly, her Grandmother, and the time they spent making bread. The question was asked whether the narrator (Shelly) and her grandmother have a loving relationship. Before I can answer this question I must first explore the personalities of each character.

Americans have been divided into different social brackets based upon income, education, and choice of work for over a century. Lower or working, middle, and upper class are the three main brackets one can fall into, but more importantly, children are born into the same class their parents fall under. Even though every exceptional parent wants to raise an all around successful child, social class tends to have a more negative effect on how children are raised today. A prime example of a child’s struggle when living in these circumstances is in Tillie Olsen’s short story “I Stand Here Ironing”, takes place in the 1930’s during the Great Depression. A time where jobs were hard to keep and pay was minimal. “I Stand Here Ironing”, written in the first person narrative in which the narrator, a single mother of five living in era of the depression. Where she struggles to make ends meet. Emily, the narrator’s daughter struggles to live a normal life after being born into a lower class of society.