Feminine identity in the Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers The novel‚ Bread Givers‚ by Anzia Yezierska explores the life of the Smolinsky family living in the poor conditions of the lower east side in New York City. The novel’s narrator and main protagonist‚ Sara‚ struggles to find her identity as an independent woman throughout the novel. Sara’s struggle illuminates the transition of women from being undervalued to independent and self-fulfilling individuals. Sara’s struggle is characterized by her
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Bread Givers‚ written by Anzia Yezierska‚ is a story that took place on the Lower East Side of New York City during the 1920s. The story describes the struggles Sara Smolinsky‚ a Jewish immigrant‚ faces through out her life such as poverty‚ discrimination‚ oppressing patriarchal values‚ finding her identity while still being unaccepted by her father. Sara Smolinsky was a young Jewish girl who came to America from a small Polish town before she was ten years old. Sara was the youngest of 4 daughters
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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
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surroundings brought upon much hardship and suffering for hopeful European families who were trying to create new and successful lives in America. The novel Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska is a moving story about the lives of the Smolinsky family hoping to leave their suffering in Europe behind them and build life in America. The novel‚ Bread Givers is labeled as a pure fictional story of a Jewish family’s migration into a new world. Sara Smolensk’s story‚ and the story of her sisters is not unusual
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The Great Depression & Bread Givers The Great Depression was the worst and longest economic recession that happened in the history of the United States. It affected the life of the citizens of this country very depressingly‚ mostly the incoming immigrants. These immigrants were just migrating from their own country to begin starting a new and better life right when the Great Depression began. The sole reason why they left their homeland was to move away from the similar situation that was happening
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Bread Givers The 1920s was a hard and painstaking era in American history. Many family’s throughout New York lived in absolute poverty and saved week to week just to make enough to eat and pay the rent. Many Immigrants flooded the streets desperate for work while living conditions were harsh and many starved. This is just the case of the novel Bread Givers‚ written by Anzia Yezierska. In this story we follow Sarah Smolinsky‚ an ambiguous independent Jewish girl "trapped" by her religious traditions
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Discuss Yezierska’s representations of gender roles and relationships in her novel Bread Givers. The story ‘Bread Givers’ observes the role and practices of the Jewish immigrant‚ particularly females in America coarsely after the world war on New York City specifically. The novel focuses on a family and the relationship between a father who is a Rabbi‚ Reb Smolinsky and his daughters and wife. However‚ the story does focalize on Reb’s and his youngest daughter Sara’s relationship. Through events
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of their time into literature‚ however‚ know that the title of a book in many cases is an indicator of the overall message the author wishes to convey to those willing to take the time to analyze the text. This certainly rings true for the novel Bread Givers. This novel explores many aspects of individuality and personal definition of one’s self with respect to gender‚ class‚ and religion‚ focusing on a group of women forced to live under the same roof with a man who genuinely feels that‚ according
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Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers attacks several social norms of both her traditional Polish homeland and the American life her protagonist has come to know. Clearly autobiographical‚ Bread Givers boldly questions why certain social and religious traditions continue throughout the centuries without the slightest consideration for an individual’s interests or desires. Sara’s traditional Jewish upbringing exposed her to a life dominated by patriarchal control; when she arrived in New York
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Barack Obama is an example of a child who suffered as a result of the physical absence of his father. Obama’s father was awarded a scholarship to obtain his phD at Harvard‚ leaving behind Obama and his mother‚ and thereafter returned to his home country of Africa to fulfill his inherent obligation to the country. The absence of Obama’s father left Obama overcome with concerns regarding why his father truly failed to return‚ and what his father’s absence meant for his own identity. Obama’s father
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