Bread Givers
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- “More and more I began to think inside myself, I don’t want to sell herring for the rest of my days. I want to learn something. I want to do something. I want some day to make myself for a person and come among people (page 66 p.2/3)
- if I get a lover, I don’t want father asking out his wages, or if he plays the piano on the Sabbath
- “what? Wild head” without asking, consulting with your father" (p 136).
- “all these tyrannies crashed over me. Should I let him crush me as he crushed them? No. This is America, where children are people” p 135 p.3
- “You think I’ll slave for you till my braids grow gray- wait till you find me another fish –peddler to sell me out in marriage!” p 137.
- “It says in the Torah, only through a man has a woman an existence. Only through a man can a woman enter heaven” on page 137 p.1/2 .
- It is "the crime of crimes against god—daring your will against your father’s will" p 137 .
- “my will is as strong as yours” p. 137
- “It’s a new life now. In America, women don’t need men to boss them” p 137.
- This was Sara's new world thoughts started brewing because she could see the dark road that her father was dragging to his daughters. she wasn't excepted. father wanted Sara work for him, and in meantime he was hoping to find a man with some cash to trade her off. Sara felt that was not fair. she knew what happened to Bessie. So definitely she didn't want to end up like her sisters. She could see every day in america was different than that. To hr father, Sara had devil's thought . so this is an example of clash between old and new.
- “ I don’t believe this. It’s my only suit, and I need it for work. Tearing it wouldn’t bring mother back to life again” on page 255 p.7 .
- "Heart of Stone" p256
- A hundred eyes burned on me their condemnations "look at her , the americanerin!" p255
- At this point, Sara's brewing thoughts were not anymore silent. She faced off her father, and that was unbelievable to him. she claimed that she is a person like him. she is not allowing to mislead her life like others without permission. what? permission. The father knows all, wishes for his daughters because it said in the Torah and old country values. however, Sara saw her father dictation on her life as slavery. This was a complete drift. Sara thoughts and actions were new and shocking.
- "Sara stated, I saw there was no use talking. He could never understand. He was the Old world. I was the New” on page 207
- Father sees every thing through lenses of Torah, and he is also smart in how to use it and get what he wants. Reb believes he knows what is good for Sara than her because the traditional role of family men suppose to know what is good for women. However, that doesn't make sense to Sara. She feels she is a person of her own, and has wishes, and will. It seems to her that old country values are inapplicable to her life. Sara decides to be her own and she left home. In the old country women can't do this, they could be forced to stay home. they can leave home only when they married off.
- "Father! i ventured, hesitatingly. would you care to live with me ? he looked at me , and in that look I felt the full force of his unbending spirit. Can a Jew and Christian live under one roof?"
- during her burial, again Sara defies traditional nonsense rituals when the undertaker asked her to cut off piece her new suit. This really shows Sara relies on reason and logic rather than her parents' old country tradition. again , this is solid new country values that resisted old country values. That was not surprise to her father, she has already Americanize, left home, she said she will find a man for herself, didn't visit for 6 years and she was a teacher.
- Sara explicitly acknowledges in this scene the clash between her father's old world and her new world. Remember her father's old values doesn't make sense to Sara, and she opposed when she was little girl and lefthome at age of 17 because She couldn't apply her life in America that kind of old country values that her father brought to America and kept it. She is pessimistic, but she is looking for another solution to make it coexist their opposing worlds because he is her father, and it is hard for her to abandon him.
- The grander truth is although the final days Sara has become her father's burden bearer , but now with her choice. They are still like species from different planets because of their sides of spectrum. On the one hand, father said my own daughter is not Jew nor gentile. On the other hand, Sara said very thing change, but my father is the only one remained unchanged. This can be a grander truth of understanding why they couldn't understand each other for so long because Sara adopted the new world ,but father kept his old world.
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