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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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Running head: ENGLISH LITERATURE
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Analysis Essay
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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.
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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...