The Theme Of Everything Is Discrimination By Jonathan Safran Foer

While reading Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, the journey of two generations told their story about their lifetime. The story of the past includes the birth of Brod, Brod’s tragedy, Brod and Kolker and Safran and Zosha’s marriage, and the death of Yankel, Zosha, and Alex’s grandfather. While the story of the future is about the quest of a young boy named Alex guiding Jonathan Safran Foer to find answers from the past and to find if Augustine, the woman who saved Jonathan’s grandfather from the Nazis in Trachimbrod, is truly still alive. Within the novel, the two stories are intermixed between chapters and it becomes an adventure to connect the dots. The true question to be asked is, do the events of the past prove everything happened so that Alex could be saved or that he could save Igor? As Alex set out
In the story of Tachimbrod, Alex and Jonathan learned about the journey of Brod and Safran. They endured the birth of Brod, the loss of Yankel, Safan’s love with the Gypsy woman, Zosha’s death and the discovery of the holocaust victims. As they traveled to the old remains of Trachimbrod to find Augustine, they learned about grandfather’s experience in the war and his traumatic murder of his best friend. All this was needed to be recollected in order for Alex to help Jonathan learn about his grandfather’s past and for Alex to save his brother Igor and himself from a house of violence. A quote from The Zahir states, “My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive - I’ll find love again.” Alex may have went back in the past through memories and visited times of sadness, but he will move forward in order to save himself and essentially find love and peace