Bread Giver Analysis
Value of rational thought and restraint
In Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers of 1952, a family of immigrant parents living in poverty in the ghetto of New York City struggles to survive. Sara sacrifices her family relationship and leaves home to get the education and life she wants. Meanwhile, in the process, she learns that losing control over her anger will take her nowhere but backward. Previous to attending college, Sara did not have impulse control which is what got herself into trouble from crashing Berel Bernstein's engagement party to fighting with her parents.
Through past experiences, when Father gets married shortly after her mother's death, Sara forces down her rage “too angry to speak, my lips tightened, struggling to control myself”
In Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers of 1952, a family of immigrant parents living in poverty in the ghetto of New York City struggles to survive. Sara sacrifices her family relationship and leaves home to get the education and life she wants. Meanwhile, in the process, she learns that losing control over her anger will take her nowhere but backward. Previous to attending college, Sara did not have impulse control which is what got herself into trouble from crashing Berel Bernstein's engagement party to fighting with her parents.
Through past experiences, when Father gets married shortly after her mother's death, Sara forces down her rage “too angry to speak, my lips tightened, struggling to control myself”