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English Literature: Read 4 short stories and and write analysis essay for 2 pages each

First, read 4 short stories about English literature.

1. A Ghetto Wedding

https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C&pg=...

2. Children of Loneliness

( I will provide the photos and links later)

3. Gimpel the Fool

https://books.google.com/books?id=DwQlVoyHac8C&pg=...

4. Angel Levine

http://faculty.history.umd.edu/BCooperman/NewCity/...

Second, write analysis essay for 2 pages each. 8 pages totally. 12, double space. For every short story 400 words minimum. Remember to write about the analysis of the stories and your thoughts about the story, but NOT to write the summary.

The photos I upload that you need to read carefully:

1. Paragraphs with numbers 1.2.3.5 and story titles are the important paragraphs from short stories which you need to READ CAREFULLY and write a lot to analyze.

2. The paragraph under "part 2: close reading" is The Most important requirement and guideline. It's also what the professor cares most. Please remember to write the whole essay according these requirements. First, Second and Third are most important.


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understand: Touro Synagogue: Colossus, "huddled masses yearning to be free"; Polotzk, Pale of Settlement, Maryashe, Fetchke, Vitebsk. greenhorn, Miss Dillingham; Nathan and Goldy, a pier glass: The Forward, a bintel brief. David Rudinsky, Miss Ralston, singing "America" in school: Rachel Ravinsky, Frank Baker; "Good night, wide world. / Big stinking world"; Gimpel, Elka, schlemiel, divorce, shnorrer, Mae Munroe, sob sister, Max Zincas, Forest Park Club, piano, small white poodle: Alfred, cousins and their friends, der heym, Singer treadle sewing machine, twilight, kitchen, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire; Anopopei, General Cummings, Croft, Hearn, Goldstein, Roth, Martinez, Ridges, Big Lie, poker, bivouac, improvised stretcher, Leo Finkle, Pinye Salzman, Lily Hirschorn, matchmaker, red shoes, lamplight; Manischevitz, Fanny, Alexander Levine, "bona fide angel of God." Bella's; Harry Cohen, escaped canary cage, Edie Cohen, Maurie, Schwartz, herring, grubber yung, "pretend peace," "Anti- Semeets": Abramowitz, Goldberg, television, circus, centaur, Rabbi Lifschitz, Albert Gans, Rifkele; Rubin, Arkin, soft white cap. white Stetson, Rembrandt's self-portraits. Note: this is not an exhaustive list. Part 2: Close Reading Two of the following excerpts will appear on the examination exactly as they appear below; you will choose one to explicate or explain in a close reading essay in a Blue Book that I will provide. Your close reading should be organized this way: First, move quickly to the point by identifying the author and the selection from which the passage is taken. Second, address briefly the relevant aspects of the context of the passage (what has happened before this? or why, briefly, do the characters find themselves in this situation? where is the passage set what is the approximate time/date/era of the piece?). Third, work through the passage, explaining how you nterpret each phrase and sentence. Finally, show how the passage reveals a theme of the work from which it is taken—and why the source of the excerpt is significant in American Jewish literature. Remember that you must show the reader your thinking, so refer to the text specifically and quote selectively. Do not read beyond the text or try to guess the writer's intentions, and do not do research online or in the library. This close reading is solely your interpretation of the passage. 1. And as they proceeded on their dreary way through a somber, impoverished street, with here and there a rustling tree-a melancholy witness of its better days--they felt a stream of happiness uniting them, as it coursed through the veins of both, and they were filled with a blissful sense of oneness the like of which they had never tasted before. So happy were they that the gang behind them, and the bare rooms toward which they were directing their steps, and the miserable failure of the wedding, all suddenly appeared too insignificant to engage their attention-paltry matters alien to their new life, remote from the enchanted world in which they now dwelt..... They dived into the denser gloom of a side street. A gentle breeze ran past and ahead of them, proclaiming the bride and the bridegroom. An old tree whispered overhead its tender felicitations. H Survey of American Jewish Literature Mid-Term Study Guide 2 children of Loneliness Her thoughts were sharply broken in upon by the loud sound of her father's eating. Bent over the table, he chewed with noisy gulps a piece of herring, his temples working to the motion of his jaws. With each audible swallow and smacking of the lips, Rachel's heart tightened with loathing. "Their dirty ways turn all my pity into hate." She felt her toes and her fingers curl inward with disgust. "I'll never amount to anything if I'm not strong enough to break away from them once and for all." Hypnotizing herself into her line of self-defense, her thoughts raced on: "I'm only cruel to be kind. If I went back to them now, it would not be out of love, but because of weakness because of doubt and unfaith in myself." Rachel bluntly tumed her back Her head lifted. There was iron will in her jaws. 3. - Gimpel the Fool At dawn the apprentice came. We kneaded the bread, scattered caraway seeds on it, and set it to bake. Then the apprentice went away, and I was left sitting in the little trench by the oven, on a pile of rags. Well, Gimpel, I thought, you've revenged yourself on them for all the shame they've put on you. Outside the frost glittered, but it was warm beside the oven. The flames heated my face. I bent my head and fell into a doze. I saw in a dream, at once, Elka in her shroud. She called to me, "What have you done, Gimpel?" I said to her, "It's all your fault," and started to cry "You fool!" she said. "You fool! Because I was false is everything false too? I never deceived anyone but myself. I'm paying for it all, Gimpel. They spare you nothing here." the Naked and deal. 搜 4 646 chapter 10 They picked up the stretcher and tugged forward a few yards, laid it down again. The sun was drifting toward the westem 7 潜伏 在 tettem 2 horizon and it grew cooler, but they paid little attention They picked up the stretcher and tugged forward a few yards, laid it down again. The sun was drifting toward the weste horizon and it grew cooler, but they paid little attention. Wilson was a burden they had to carry; it would go on and on they could never let him go. They did not understand this, but comprehension was lurking behind their fatigue. They or knew that they must move on, and they did. All afternoon until it was dark, Ridges and Goldstein staggered forward the inches at a time, and slowly the inches added up. By the time they had stopped for the night, covered Wilson with one their two blankets and bundled up together beside each other to sleep in stupor, they had advanced Wilson five miles the place where they had left Brown and Stanley. Already the jungle was not too far away. Although they did not say it had glimpsed it from the top of the last hill they had crossed. Tomorrow they might be sleeping on the beach waiting fo boat to bring them back. BF BAD 丛林“研 5. - Angel Levine. They rode to the flat via subway. As they walked up the stairs Manischevitz pointed with his cane at this door. "That's all been taken care of," Levine said. "You go in while I take off." Disappointed that it was so soon over, but tom by curiosity, Manischevitz followed the angel up three flights to the roof. When he got there the door was already padlocked. Luckily he could see through a small broken window. He heard an odd noise, as though of a whirring of wings, and, when he strained for a wider view, could have sworn he saw a dark figure borne aloft on a pair of strong black wings. A feather drifted down. Manischevitz gasped as it turned white, but it was only snowing, He rushed downstairs. In the flat Fanny wielded a dust mop under the bed, and then upon the cobwebs on the wall. "A wonderful thing, Fanny," Manischevitz said. "Believe me, there are Jews everywhere." Survey of American Jewish Literature Mid-Term Study Guide 2
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Running head: ENGLISH LITERATURE

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Analysis Essay
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Running head: ENGLISH LITERATURE

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A Ghetto Wedding
This is a story by Abraham Cahan, a writer popularly known for writing about Jewish
immigrants. He wrote this short story in 1898 amid the assimilation era in the United States.
It involves two characters namely Goldy and Nathan. They are two Russian Jewish
immigrants in New York City. These two had been engaged for close to two years but the
bride kept on postponing the wedding claiming that she wanted a respectable wedding. She
felt that on her wedding day, a bride needed to feel special and she did not want her wedding
to be simple and ordinary. This did not help their situation seeing that they were poor. She
expected that over time she and Nathan would have saved enough to fund their wedding but
over time their savings keep on decreasing. It is simply a story of a poor Jewish couple who
have financial hardships and are facing religious persecution as they try and establish
themselves in a new world. It is evidences the hard realism that immigrants, at the time, in the
United States faced.
Cahan brings out the theme of poverty in this short story. He shows how cultural
minority can tie down somebody in respect to their way of life. Goldy was so focused on
being traditional and having a grand wedding regardless of her financial situation. They have
been postponing their wedding due to the fact that they were stinking poor. This goes to
explain further how immigrants suffered financial hardships during the assimilation era in the
United States.
This story also revolves around the impact of social and economic forces that the
Jewish immigrants experienced. Cahan tries to show how Goldy and Nathan were closely tied
with their ethnic identities. It is through this that Goldy’s personality of obsessive
determination is portrayed as a drive in people of a minority culture. Cahan uses this to show
that with cultural identity comes self-esteem.

Running head: ENGLISH LITERATURE

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Initially, Cahan manifests Goldy as an established, determined and idealist figure who
refuses to come to terms with the reality of their situation. Here he brings out the theme of
determination. We see how Goldy sustained her religious beliefs. In this we also see the
immigrants’ determination to live and excel in a new country that they believed was their
break through. She refuses to cut down her wedding budget and even when circumstances
forces her to, as their savings continue to decrease, she still hopes that friends and guests will
come to their aid. Her refusal to accept reality further leads them to deeper poverty. This kind
of determination is what brings Nathan to start peddling and their finances increase.
Cahan also brings out the theme of ethnic behavior. To him, this is a sort of mental
disease seeing that one can choose to get away from the ghetto if they choose to. This was not
the case for Nathan who was a peddler. Goldy too want a fancy wedding even though she
could not afford it. They could have worked harder or reduced their budget to reduce their
wedding cost but Goldy was intent on having a lavish event. In her mind, she knew what she
wanted but she was afraid that being part of a foreign minority culture she could not fit in
with the major culture. That is why she decides to rely on the fact that if she could not afford
the luxuries herself, the guests in her wedding would

Running head: ENGLISH LITERATURE

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Children of Loneliness
This is a short story by an immigrant writer known as Anzia Yezierska in 1923. It is
about a young girl, Rachael, who comes to the United States together with her parents in a
bid to have a better life that they had been unable to achieve in their country of origin. From
the excerpt we see a young woman who has been assimilated into the white middle class
America is bound to disassociate with her parents in a bid to achieve her dreams. She does
this because she is ashamed of the manner in which they live.
This story portrays how different immigrant children find it hard to choose a side when
it comes to the different worlds that they are living in. With this being an entirely new
generation that has been assimilated into the white way of living, they tend to feel ashamed of
their backgrounds. Yezierska in this story goes on to show how this generation is blinded by
the rich culture that the new country has to offer and through this they are brainwashed. This
seen when Rachael after clearing college views her parents differently not considering their
self-sacrifice. She claims to not understand how she could have put up with liking them and
having to leave with them before she went to college showing that education and interacting
with those in upper social classes had greatly influenced her sense of belonging.
Yezierska also manifests the how different class relationships are impossible. When
Rachael meets Frank Baker and he tells her of his view of her kind, she shuts him out.
Although they debate for a while, to Rachael, Frank does not understand the hardships and
complexity of the life immigrants go through. She turns away frank because of their cultural
differences and their ideological disagreements. She later discovers that, in her final
observation that children of immigrants who are...


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