Summary: The Chosen

Legs by Steven Polansky was an interesting lens into the relationship held by fathers and sons. While the story uses the traditional relationship between a confused father and an angry son it also juxtaposes the relationship held between the father’s relationship with his son and the father’s relationship with God. While David, the father, cannot seem to connect to his son Randy, he does connect with God. I found this juxtaposition to mirror common faith vs family relationships in media where a parent connects heavily with a faith in God but struggles with or harms their family. I enjoyed how Legs took a different route and had a father who was trying to connect with their child. David was not distant but more so lost in how to communicate

The novel was set in New York during the Second World War. Since the main characters are Jews, this period of time is very significant. Not only were the Jews persecuted during WWII, but New York was also close to a military base, which made it a prime target for bombing. Even the setting has an underlying sense of tension.

The story is a documentary but in a cartoon, comic type of way and is like an adventure that makes you just reflect about your life and back then. LIfe was a struggle to survive during the war if you were a Jew for they would hunt you down. Also it just reflects on feeling of how you would feel if you lost your family and all you had, even if you were rich and wealthy you would be treated like less than a human. The book leaves you thinking on many concepts and it's true how could a human be treated as less just because of your religion.

Throughout this chapter Gladwell analyzes the effect of Jewish heritage on the lives of multiple people in the early twenty-first century. By delving into the advantages and disadvantages that these people endured, Gladwell once again utilizes the appeal to pathos. The life of Joe Flom is a good example of the specific appeals that pathos plays on, such as the readers values and beliefs. By using the story of a young man who was denied a job because of his religious decent, Gladwell is able to connect to the reader’s own struggles and their opinions on the

I choose this book because anytime I have to read a nonfiction book, the only nonfiction books I can read and enjoy reading the book are about Holocaust for some reason. I’m not sure why though. I got it at the school library, and my friend Elaina recommend me to read this book. The title appealed to me because it

The discussion of religion really started to churn thoughts in mind. It was interesting to me how the author brought up the role of religion on the battlefield. It amazes me that conflict as far back as the civil war branched from the topic of religion

The book starts out by telling us about an ordinary young boy, who happens to be Jewish living in Sighet, Transylvani. He introduces the reader to his family, community and especially to his interest in the jewish faith. When his father would not help Ellie to find a master to pursue his studies of the cabbala on account that Ellie was still too young, Ellie finds a master for himself. Moshe the Beadle, a poor man of all work, who lived humbly, and was liked by all in the community. He also happens to be a foreigner who one day was expelled from the town of Sighet. Rumors of horrible things happening to the expelled were all around the town, but nobody

The author uses description in the beginning of the story to help the reader visualize the setting and characters. To begin with, on page 19 the author writes, “the synagogue was like a huge station: luggage and tears. The altar was broken, the hangings torn down, the walls bare.” This helps

Furthermore, as the narrator’s life begins to slowly unravel and tumble down in front of him, he is forced to wonder if there really is a God. For example, Eliezer, the main character and narrator of the memoir shows his journey throughout the Holocaust. In the first few sections of the book, he is devoted and loving towards God and the Kabbalah’s festive and cultural requirements. However, as he is then captured and introduced to the horrors of the concentration camps that he is taken to, some being Auschwitz and Buna, he begins to lose faith in his

Chapter six, … Or the Bible, of How to Read Literature Like A Professor (HTRLLAP) asserts that connect all of the dots is vital, and how a story about the loss of innocence always hit so hard because they are final. The two biggest points of this chapter, though, are how not all uses of religion are straight-forward, how some are there just to illustrate a disparity and that the names of the characters in a novel are almost always important to a writer's point and can help carry their message.

Religion was a major theme in the book. Religion had a major impact on how the

Reading the two powerful novel about the Holocaust had brought new meanings into the class discussion. I truly believe reading Maus and Night was an excellent idea, because it strengthened my understanding toward the

The last thing that really appeals to me that connects to the theme is the whole holocaust and the prisoners and how they actually get explained in this story a little but because this is not all about the holocaust but it is but what really appealed to me is how they explained how they helped each other but not for worthy cause for their end so they could pass on and be in a probable better life. The Jewish arrivals

In the story “The God of Small Things," the term family can be defined as persons that an individual cares about. The obligations of the family members appear to be influenced by the bold ties. Despite the disputes among some family members, the blood ties obligate them to express care and love towards one another. Just like in real life situations, the novel explains that family relations can be frustrating, complicated, and confusing. In most cases, it is apparent that most individuals are forced by the family ties to stick together. The failure to express care towards one another is seen as one of the factors that prompt families to fall apart.

I have always been a reader; even though I read books mainly written in my native language, I still enjoy wandering through novels that written in English. I love to discover new cultures, ideas, and believe. Also, I enjoy criticizing the author and understand his or her writing style. Most of the time, I try to find a different ends to the same story. When I was a child, books were every thing in my life , as of today books is the second most important thing to me, since my children and their education are always the first important thing to me . Since I was a child, any simple thing in the book can attract my attention, such as the name of objects, authors, unique practice or the name of other religions. As I read Carr's book The