The Call Of Memory Analysis

In the assigned narratives food is portrayed as scarce and something to be appreciated and treasured, while hunger is portrayed as inevitable. In the Book The Call of Memory: Learning About the Holocaust Through Narrative: An Anthology, edited by Shawn, Goldfrad, & Younglove, eds., many stories from different people’s experience give us an insight of how they were affected by food and hunger during their time in the Ghettos.
In the story “A Chicken for the Holidays,” the author Bernard Gotfryd portrayed food, which is the chicken in this instance, as a wish that seems beyond Bernard and his family grasp. So right before "Yamim Noraim,” a holiday that includes both Yom Kippur, and Rosh Hashanah, in 1940, the end of the first year of the occupation
Bernard worked in a photo studio during the holocaust, as was mentioned in all his stories in The Call of Memory: Learning about the Holocaust through Narrative: An Anthology. In the Story “The last Morning” Bernard wrote about the last time he saw his forty-four year old mother. It was a painful day for the whole family. The story foreshadow a tragic ending of the day for this family. That morning the mother cooked as if it was the last meal she was cooking for the family and the environment was tense. This last meal represented the loosening or rather breaking of something weak but whole. The family ate their last meal as a whole, but after the meal the grandmother had to go away to “ghetto hospital”. The last meal in each other's presence was the lunch the mother prepared, then Bernard and his brother took their grandmother to the ghetto hospital. When they returned the mother was crying, “When she saw us she fell upon us, and through her tears she begged us to to go into hiding…” Bernard and his brother went into hiding, they ran out the house without saying goodbye to their mother. While in hiding Bernard found a sandwich in his pocket that his mother had put there. Food in this story was one thing that kept the family going. That sandwich was the last thing Bernard ever received from his mother. For Bernard food was a strong connection to his mother because,