Choose one of the following themes and make it specific. Basically, ask the question, “What is the novel or Anzia saying about this theme?” For example, don’t simply tell me personhood is important. Tell me what Anzia or the novel is trying to tell us about personhood.
Themes: Personhood, Assimilation, Women’s Rights, Independence, Education, or a theme of your choosing.
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There are many different themes in the book "Bread Givers" that the author is trying to get across. One of the most important themes is personhood. Personhood is really important because it is the greatest goal of the main character. Anzia is trying to say that it is a really important concept of becoming a person that requires independence and hard work. This novel also shows how Sara is determined to become a person with people looking up to her and her working for her own money. This also shows how her character strives for independence. This is one of the many themes that contain all of the rest or have the rest follow as a result of it. Personhood is a very important concept and Anzia gets it across to us in the novel.
In Bread Givers, there are many different themes that all have their own importance. However, I believe that independence / freedom and personhood are the most important themes throughout the play. Independence / freedom and personhood are crucial to Sara. Her goals are to reach personhood and independence, and these two goals cannot be reached without each other. Sara needs her independence / freedom from her father, in order to be her own person, instead of following his commands, whenever he creates any. Also, without her personhood, she could never be able to reach this independence / freedom, because she will always need to be dependent on others to help her achieve this goal. I think the novel is trying to tell the readers that in order to break away from depending on others, one needs to make sure that they are a "person", which is basically saying you can be safe independently.
A significant theme that is told in this book is Independence. From the start of the book Sara had wanted independence to choose her own life, to become independent from father’s constant arguing and religious values, to have more independence in her decisions. In the book Anzia Yezierska is telling us that independence/freedom are important because without these important traits a person will become subjected to another person’s ideas for the rest of his/her life. An example that Yezierska provided was father’s decision to marry each of his daughters to wealthy people. In conclusion each of Sara’s sisters lose their independence and freedom to other people. Sara who realizes this had chose to move away from her father’s grocery shop because she does not want to become subjected to father’s decision on her life( marry another wealthy person). Within the book Sara is forced to make a decision of staying with her father and losing her independence or leaving his shop and starting an independent life herself. Sara begins to see the hardships of life as she is forced to work as an ironer for a laundry to earn a very low wage. Yezierska is telling us that independence, while overall being good, could bring other hardships such as poverty and suffering if you don’t have any support/money and family to help you while choosing to be independent. Sara’s independence become endangered when Max Goldstein, who has traveled to Sara through advice from Fania , wants to marry her. At first Sara becomes accepting of Max but realizes Max is prevented her from receiving education to become a schoolteacher. Yezierska is showing that we should not become easily distracted and lose our independence to others when they are endangering our future. Throughout the book the theme of independence is told to us in the story Bread Givers and is proven through these supporting sentences.
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