Febuary 2012 Journal Entry #5: Anzia Yezierska’s “The Lost Beautifulness” Anzia Yezierska’s short story “The Lost Beautifulness‚” is the portrayal of the common immigrant during the 1920’s in search of the “American dream.” The main character Hanneh Hayyeh is “tired of living like a pig‚” so she does whatever it takes to fulfill her place in living this dream. Mrs. Hayyeh even idolizes her son and takes much pride in the fact that he’s in the army‚ fighting for her to live this dream. Another character
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After reading this story‚ the only sympathy I have for any of the characters would be for the Hanneh Hayyeh’s husband and son. Her husband works hard to pay for bills and to put food on the table. Sure Hanneh works as well but she should help out with the bills instead of saving money to paint her kitchen. Her husband stated‚ “But you had ought save it up for the bad times. What’ll you do when the cold weather starts in and the pushcart will not wheel itself out?” (Yezierska‚ 1920). That tells me
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opportunities. They endured so much but in reality‚ nothing in return. Anzia Yezierska was born in Poland‚ she came here willing to work hard hoping to earn a decent living right away. She finds out that this is not necessarily the case. “…I felt that the America of my dreams never was and never could be…I felt that the America that sought was nothing but a shadow-an echo-a chimera of lunatics and crazy immigrants” (Yezierska. P97). Going on with this the author states
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and poor people included America. “America and I” by Anzia Yezierska and “The Subliminal Man” by Ballard J. G. are short stories that talked about how they feel about America. These short stories will show the American Dream is not for everyone. “America and I” and “The Subliminal Man”
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by race. There is too much diversity in America to define an American by color. For instance‚ in the short story “America and I‚” by Anzia Yezierska‚ the narrator is an immigrant who discovers that diversity is what makes America: “They had left their native country as I had left mine. They had crossed an unknown ocean and landed in an unknown country‚ as I” (26). In making this comment‚ Yezierska is saying that Americans were immigrants just like the speaker. By observing this connection the speaker
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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 and her father
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Givers” by Anzia Yezierska a young girl from poland grows up in america. Set in the 1920s conditions for immigrants living in the United States were tough‚ not to mention living in the lower East side of Manhattan‚ New York. Reb Smolinsky the father of Sara in this book really tries on impressing his beliefs onto his children for he is very set on his traditional ways. This becomes a very prominent underlying to the story as Sara grows throughout the book moving from her fathers beliefs to her own. This
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Brittney Dollison In the novel‚ Bread Givers‚ author Anzia Yezierska tells the story of life as an immigrate in the Untied States. For many immigrates‚ the U.S. was the way to insure a better life for themselves‚ and their family; a life without the constant worry of money‚ and of the injustice religious ways. Sara’s father lectures his wife about not needing a feather bed "Don’t you know it is always summer in America? And in the new golden country‚ where milk and honey flows free in the streets
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though there are many differences between protagonists in short stories‚ there are actually many similarities that can be found as well. An example of this is the similarities and differences between the protagonists in the short stories “Stolen Day” and “The Night the Bed Fell.” This essay will tell you these similarities and differences‚ and possibly change you thinking about what protagonists in short stories actually have in common. The short story “Stolen Day” by Sherwood Anderson describes
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drove his Mustang through the congested city streets‚ he felt a sudden urge to take a long walk along the beach in the hope it would clear his head and help him unwind. And so‚ amid honking horns and irate drivers‚ he performed an illegal u-turn and headed back in the direction of Santa Monica State Beach. Once he started walking along the sun-bleached sand‚ it did not take long for Mother Nature to weave her therapeutic magic. The hypnotic crash of waves and screeching aow uh-uh-uh of the California
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