Part one of term paper
With dramatic force, with a simplicity that seizes the heart, illumines- for us, for now- the eternal, powerful bonds of the love and pain that can join a father and son, and the ways in which these bonds are, and must be, broken when the boy has to become a man. The novel starts out in the 1940's, in the Willaimsburg neighborhood of Brookli ...

Part two of term paper
... anger by his pent-up torment, who feels imprisoned by the tradition that destines him to succees his father in an unbroken line of great Hasidic rabbis, while his own intelligence is leading him towards other areas of knowledge. Reuvin Malther is the other boy. The victim of Danny's rage. Reuvin is struck in the eye by the ball Danny hit with fury at him. He is a gentle son of a scholar, who has a dream of becoming a rabbi. from the moment of their first furious meeting, the lives of the two bo ...