Etgar Keret

abnegation of personal gain, and benefit of third party people. While these motifs are present, they are frequently the consequence of a noble motivation with for the benefit of oneself and others. In “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” by Etgar Keret, the desire to feel independent, the necessity of individuality, and the inevitability or impetuousness drive

In the story “Not Human Beings”, by Etgar Keret, Shmulik Stein is portrayed as, “the bleeding heart” throughout much of the story. In the beginning of the story, Stein’s character seems to be petulant. When his commander Davidoff, is distracted by the Border Police Officer, taking him away from their game of backgammon, he makes a sarcastic threat about volunteering to go with the personnel officer if Davidoff doesn’t “shoot the fucking dice.” (752) Soon after Stein finds himself selected to spend

and untrusting towards people. Those are all how I am when it comes to certain times and towards certain people but not with everyone or all the time.like when Serigi killed Yonatan to keep the fish to himself “He wanted to take you from me” (pg.6 Keret). I can relate to Serigi when it comes to family because I have to share everything with younger

Jordan, demonstrates how everyone should be open and willing to accept those who are different and not to discriminate against others. To begin with, in the text, “What, of This Goldfish Would You Wish”, the author, Etgar Allen, does show some acceptance. On line 55, Keret states, “Sergei Goralick doesn’t much like strangers banging on doors.” Sergei is a sensitive and irritable man who does not want to be bothered. When Yoni knocked on his door and barged in (“Until one day some kid with a

“I had to see him, my own dear love, turned into the hateful one” (Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wife’s Story).In the story The Wife’s Tale. The husband had turned into a human and right away the wife was scared and howled. The baby heard the howl woke up and went to see what was happening. The baby saw the hateful one and started to cry. The wife tried to attack the husband, but the husband hit the wife. The whole pack of wolves came and attacked the hateful one because he was a human. “They do

Many people in our society have been cast away and looked down upon because they are different from us. Others convey these messages including Harper Lee , in To Kill a Mockingbird , and "What , of this Goldfish , Would You Wish ? ",by Etgar Keret. We can accept others in many ways including ending discrimination , disregards people past action or choice , and being able to see stuff from others people's point of view. Humans need to always accept those who are different for the greater good of our

from ourselves.” This idea is also repeated in the newspaper editorial “American Flag Stands for Tolerance” by Ronald J. Allen, the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, and another short story “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” by Etgar Keret. These works and the quote by Jordan all relate by expressing that humans must be accepting of others because they are entitled to their own opinion as much as someone else is to theirs, everyone has different perspectives, and that they must understand

Is love or loss the ultimate sacrifice? Is companionship necessary? These questions are addressed in both George Steinbeck’s and Etgar Keret’s works, where they come to the same conclusion, but the way they do so differs. In Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Crooks seeks companionship but pushes people away, much like Sergei in Keret’s “What, of this Goldfish, Would You Wish?” and how he craves interaction while wanting privacy. Both stories are comparable in that Sergei and George both end up having

What do our actions reveal about us? Our actions define who we are and what we truly believe in. people define us by our appearance but our actions are what what really define us. In Etgar Keret's “What of this goldfish would you wish,” Shirley Jackson’s “The lottery,” and Diane Glancy's “Without title,” we learn how our relationships can affect us and how they define who we are. Based on this stories and my personal experiences our relationships define who we are by showing our actions, which shows

In stories What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish? by Etgar Keret, Wife's Story by Ursula K. Le Guin, and The Interlopers by Saki they all prove the statement that people don't accept others who are different from themselves. In all of the stories the characters in them are not accepting to the others who are different to them. They are prejudice towards them or just dont like them without a reason. In the story What, of This Goldfish Would You Wish? Yonatan is a man young man