Bread Givers, By Anzia Yezierska

Sara faces a number of serious hindrances on her way to making a life of her own. One of them is her father, who she looks up to and starts to resent later on in life. Her father, Red Smolinsky wants his all daughters to fulfill their gender roles: maintain the household, take care of children, cook, etc. Women, in his opinion, do not exist without men and their own function is to serve men in all senses – sexual, psychological and spiritual. Red Smolinsky represents the Old World with its conservative view on the womanhood. She also starts to hate her father when she understands the ways he has denied his daughters, her older sisters, lives of their own. Sara tries to resist this “new” world and her

Laura Esquirel’s, Like Water for Chocolate, is a modern day Romeo and Juliet filled with mouthwatering recipes. It has become a valued part of American literature. The novel became so popular that it was developed into a film, becoming a success in both America and Mexico. Alfonso Arau directs the film. After reading the novel and seeing the movie, I discovered several distinct differences between the two as well as some riveting similarities. The novel begins with the main character, Tita, being born on the kitchen table. "Tita had no need for the usual slap on the bottom, because she was already crying as she emerged; maybe that was because she knew that it would be her lot in life to be denied marriage …Tita was literally washed into

In this time period women don't have full rights. People, like Sara's father, think women can not live without a man to look after them. I think this is ironic because earlier in the novel he said that men can't survive without women caring and cooking for them, and now he is saying the complete opposite.

Bread Givers tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, whose life is almost the same as Anzia Yezierska, who is the author. Through Sara we see the collapse of a family because of religion and old world ways. Sara tries so hard to get away from her past but in the end it shows that your family will always be there, for good or bad.

Gloria Anzaldua concept of borderlands is one of many aspects. To begin it is a place that is consistently transitioning, full of multiple people who are seen as different. The borderlands is also a territory where the third world and the first world meets, specifically it is located in the US -Mexican border. Its where cultures collide, it is what separates us from them and determines what we view safe and unsafe, but most importantly it is an unnatural boundary, made to separate us. The people here are troublesome, they are the queer, the perverse, the mulato, the half breed, in short those who live here are considered different.

Generally, when innocence is thought of, the first speculation recalled to one’s mind is the thought of pureness and the idea that the specific individual is free from moral wrong. On the other end of the spectrum is the term known as guilt. Guilt is the emotional notion in which one feels that they have compromised his or her own standards in a negative way. In the novel Sarah’s Key, Sarah frequently proves to struggle with both guilt and innocence. These specific themes are put on display when Sarah realizes she is not going back home, the scenario in which Sarah boards the cattle car to the camps, and the tragic event in which Sarah takes her own life.

The current generation is quizzical of the importance that religious teachings hold in our evolving pro-choice society. In past generations, spiritualism was a method of uniting the community and nurturing the young. However, we find that faith has the adverse effect. While separate from other religions, a rise in hate fueled discrimination and separatism is observable between different communities in all corners of the globe. In this generation, it is only logical that as religion is taught, after learning from present and past events, the very essence of the teachings is skewed and put into question.

Often throughout the book she mentions that it is said that "you're paid what you're worth", saying that little pay results in you not being to good of a person. With that label they were looked down on and viewed kind of as untouchables. They had low pay, long hours, no overtime pay, and no benefits which leads to low socio-economic-status a job that no one wants to pursue. She stressed that poverty wasn’t a sustainable condition, it's a state of emergency. Citizens in the lower classes are left to fend for themselves and the ten, eight, or six dollar jobs are all that's there for them. What she would encourage them to do is to demand to be paid what they're worth because in the end they will be better off.

In her novel, My Year of Meats, author Ruth Ozeki redefines what it means to be a family. Readers follow Jane Takagi-Little as she travels the country in search of the “perfect household” to feature on her Japanese cooking and lifestyle program. The preceding excerpt comes from an email to Jane Takagi-Little at the beginning of the novel explaining what the producers do and do not want to see in a family featured on My American Wife! The headings, “DESIRABLE and UNDESIRABLE THINGS”, immediately introduce the idea of subjectivity into the discussion of what makes the “perfect” family. At first glance, the passage appears to be nothing more than an instructional email from the producers to Jane; but a closer examination reveals the

Hunger plays an important role in every person’s life. Everyone experiences hunger in one way or another, whether it be physical or even mental/emotional states of hunger and longing. In “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti, hunger takes on an atypical but major part in the poem. The role of hunger in “Goblin Market” is much more than solely physical hunger; rather, it is representative of desperate and harmful longing in a never-ending cycle of desire for more shown through various elements of the language used in the poem.

This article talks about how the kids need food from the food trucks with “FREE FOOD AND FUN HERE!” on the side of the van. Some details from the article “Food vans help kids in need” by Allison Colburn, talks about how the food van helps kids get more food. “What we saw last year is some of our children would count on us being there every day,” this means that some of the kids or counting on it. This is reefed to the topic sentence of how the kids can feel about getting the free food. “We want to reach more children,” this part is talking about how they want to send more van out to lots more lucky kids. These are some details the can show that these vans help kids who need

I remembering watching a talk show that Jessica Simpson had appeared on a few years ago. She had gained a few pounds and was discussing all the negative feedback she had been getting from the public. Because of this experience she started a reality show called “The Price of Beauty” where she travels around the globe and reveals what ideal beauty is in many different parts of the world. In one episode she go to Uganda and visits with a community that embraces larger women as their ideal model of beauty. As soon I saw the book “Feeding Desire” it reminded me of Jessica’s experience. Rebecca Popenoe is a social anthropologist. Her book, “Feeding Desire” details her

War and the concept of war has impacted the world and has highly impacted literary works. Two works that have been written in the times of war and are primarily about war are, “Why Is This Age Worse…?” by Anna Akhmatova and “I Know of No Better World,” by Ingeborg Bachmann. Akhmatova wrote her poem post World War One while Ingeborg Bachmann’s poem is assumed to be written sometime after World War Two. Akhmatova and Bachmann had experienced different lives; however, wrote similarity about the same concept. Both authors wrote about how treacherous war was and their experiences with war and how living during the time of war was hell. However, the main difference is that Bachmann experienced the Nazi’s, which her poem explained exclusively,

Literature is defined as written works published on a particular subject. Literature can also be viewed as witness, because it can be a source of proof based on the events it was written on. Literature as witness allows readers to get a deeper understanding of the issues that have happened based off of what the books are about. Those who read literary texts such as historical novels, memoirs and novels are witness to historical events. These texts can be viewed as witness because the events mentioned are based off of true life events. Some may argue historical fiction is not real and therefore could not be viewed as a reliable source. Even though historical fiction is made up of fictional characters, the conflicts that are mentioned are based

Food is one of the basic needs of a human being to survive. All of us depend on food for having a good health, therefore with the lack of food many people will be starving and malnourished.