Bread Givers

Term Paper Title	Bread Givers
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Bread Givers

Bread Givers shows the life of a Jewish family in modernizing America during

the early 1900's, but it focuses in on a young girl who's father is a Rabbi
that does

nothing but teach the Holy Torah all day and does no work to earn money.
During

this time period it was hard on almost all Jewish families and this family
was seeing

this now, the inability of getting a decent job, and most of all, the need to
find a

suitable husband.

All of the family works hard except for the father, he is always out
preaching the

Torah while his daughters earn the only income the family gets. He was a
'religious

freak' that did nothing else to help his family through their hardships. And
the thing

that bothered me, the reader, the most was the fact that the daughters had to
do all

the work for the family and their father still had total control over them in
just about

every aspect if not all. The biggest part was controlling who they marry to.

The first showing of this power was apparant when his oldest daughter,
Bessie,

brought home a nice young man that she liked a great deal and vice-versa. But
the

young man was not in the upper-class that the father wanted and though that
he would

be a burden so he drove his daughter's love away over money.

The youngest dauaghter though figured that she would not be controlled by her

father and decided to run away with only a few dollars and start a somewhat
new life.

After finding a small room that she could live in, she got a very tough job

considering the pay was so little. But with this little pay she was able to
survive and

keep the rent going long enough to get into school. After long, brutal,
endless days

and nights of studying she finally got into a college in the suburbs of New
York but

she didn't fit in with anyone.

Afte...

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