The Lemon Tree Goldberg Analysis

People often think of family as positive, loving, and with no flaws. However, there is almost a stereotype that all families love each other and there aren’t problems or challenges in a family. Sometimes families put people through challenges and some families aren’t “perfect”. In the book Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff, Jolly has two kids and goes through challenges with her family. Most careful readers can see how Jolly has these challenges with her kids and how she is far off from the “perfect” family. She goes through many of these challenges in life and finds a way to overcome them. Jollys family shapes her identity because the challenges she faces ends up making her stronger. Jeremy and Jilly challenging her, LaVaughn helping her out, and her past family all shape her identity.

     In January 1973 his unit was sent back to Fort Knox, KY and with the move, his military career seem to disappear. Also with the move, he had a spiritual rebirth, and began attending services at Beth Haven Baptist Church in Louisville and soon changed from a Jew to a Christian.

Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, Amir was the son of a wealthy social worker. He was brought up with the son of his servant, and perhaps his only best friend, Hassan. Amir had a rocky relation with his father. At times, it seemed as his father loved him but those moments didn’t lasted forever. He thinks Baba (his father) wishes Amir were more like him, and that Baba holds him responsible for killing his mother, who died during his birth. Despite being best friends, Amir thinks that Hassan is beneath him because he belonged to an inferior cast. He used to mock him jokingly or tried to outsmart him. In all fairness, it was Amir’s cowardly nature that

The Establishment Clause guarantees the separation of church and government. Christian Theism is the default state doctrinal religion. As opposed to being something to fear , it was believed to be vital to the success of our government. Consequently, framers feared a state denominational religion not a state doctrinal religion. The Supreme Court established various tests to assess the constitutionality of laws that happened before it. The Lemon Test, has three parts addressing purpose, effect, and involvement. To pass the test, government action must be used only for a secular purpose; cannot promote neither prohibit a specific religion. As well as to not substantially involve government in religious matters. Failure on any one of the three

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.

Eventually, Amir received a call from his old mentor, who told him to come back to Afghanistan because "there is a way to be good again." What Amir learned while he visited his mentor would lead him to what he considered redemption. Hassan had been killed, which Amir partially considered his fault, but Hassan's son, Sohrab, was still alive. With the idea of giving him to a good placement organization, Amir set out to save Sohrab. Amir found Sohrab in the possession of a Taliban member, the same man who had raped Hassan when they were children. In order to save Sohrab, Amir had to fight the man, and he was injured very badly in doing so. Despite his injuries, he felt better about himself. He felt free, at peace. He finally had the courage to tell his wife about what he had done, and that took a weight off of his shoulders, as well. Even though Hassan had forgiven him long ago, Amir refused anything less than Hassan's fate.

The book Brooklyn by Colm Toibin, focuses on the immigrant experience in America and how people make the hard choice to leave their homeland in search of a new life. The main character Eilis, makes the hard of decision of leaving her small town in Ireland for Brooklyn. Eilis struggles with feelings of homesickness and ponders weather or not she made the right choice. Yet, she begins to make new memories in New York and meets Tony, a kind Italian-American boy. Eilis soon becomes excited about her future in America. However, tragedy strikes and she is suddenly called back to Ireland. When she returns, she remembers the beauty of her old town begins to question why she left in the first place. Eilis faces the dilemma of the migrant and reaches

In the meantime, he was missing his dear friend like Bechir and Nada.Nada was karim’s girlfriend in Lebanon. He lost her because there was a Civil war in Lebanon. One day in bomb explosion, he lost Nada

To many people, the United States is more than just a country; it’s a place of ideals. To some, those ideals are liberty and freedom. To others, the American Dream is democracy and unity between all people. Many people, especially immigrants, see the many opportunities that America offers as its greatest ideal. House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III, focuses extensively on economic opportunity, telling the tale of former Iranian Colonel, Massoud Behrani. Behrani hopes to strike it rich in the real estate market with a home he bought, so he can work towards restoring his family’s honor. Sadly, his dreams fall flat and his entire family ends up dead. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford, is about social opportunity America can offer. A young Chinese boy named Henry Lee becomes good friends with a Japanese girl named Keiko during World War II, despite that their people have long been enemies. When the government sends Keiko and her family away to an internment camp, Henry is separated from perhaps his only friend. Both House of Sand and Fog and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet discuss the opportunities that America offers, and how sometimes these opportunities fail people.

The Lemon test refers to the case Lemon vs. Kurtzman, which took place in 1971. The case was heard with two other cases involving religion and education, with the main issue being financial support for teacher salaries that were part of parochial schools. State financial aid was being awarded to non-public schools that were teaching religion, which created unsettlement (https://www.oyez.org/cases/1970/89.) The establishment clause was intended to prevent government involvement or support of religion.

Martin Kohn was born in 1929 in Hungary. I think it was kind of nice that he lived in a military town, I feel like he probably felt safe before the war. But when Hungary went into the Axis Powers, I would’ve felt betrayed, like I was in danger most of the time. He probably felt like that because he was constantly on the run from the military. Luckily for him, he was faster than them. He also witnessed many jews taken into the military for jobs, or they were just transferred. This relates to the book Night by Elie Wiesel, because some jews were taken before the transportation to have them dig trenches for the German military. It all really relates to the book, jews were put into jails for different reasons, some tried to hide themselves

Curt Lemon got one of his perfectly good teeth pulled because he was so scared and nervous about seeing a dentist that he went crazy. First, the reader could tell that Curt Lemon was very nervous to see the dentist because “Curt Lemon began to tense up. He kept fidgeting, playing with his dog tags.”(O’Brien 83). This showed the rest of the soldiers that he was nervous of seeing the dentist if he would have started doing that no one would have known that he was nervous about it. Furthermore, he showed that he was nervous by he told the rest of the soldiers that he wasn’t going to do it “No way. Count me out. Nobody messes with these teeth.”(O’Brien 83). He was so nervous about the exam that he said he was going to tell the dentist that he could

“The Search for Marvin Gardens” by John McPhee was a short story about an international Monopoly tournament and also a narrative of the narrator walking through Atlantic City through switching perspectives.

In the book, A Little Piece Of Ground, the most dynamic character is Hassan Aboudi. Hassan Aboudi is the father of the main character Karim. Hassan when the conflict endured throughout the course of the book. Hassan undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude:in Hassan's eyes, the occupations since he was 10 years old hasn’t changed much. Every year he thinks to himself, it can't get any worse, and then it does. It does. Much worse. Hussain's feels like that Israelis won't be happy until they've driven all the Palestine's out of their land. The interaction within Hassan and his family reveals that the family plays a crucial role in people’s lives, offering love and support. At one point, Hassan Aboudi, the father,