So far I have really loved and connected with this book so far. The main character I have felt really compassion for. I feel that she has matured so much in the last 100 or so pages. She has changed from the girl who never really had a care in the world, to realizing and standing up for the hardships of others.
It is also easy to realize that the author is Jewish. She seems to have an immense amount of compassion for the little Jewish girls. I feel though that the authors way of writing makes the reader sympathizes more than if it was written from the Jewish perceptive.
I thought the part where she gets kicked out of her house is a real turning point. Now she is not just a women helping with the strike but now she feels what they feel. She is now homeless with not a “cent to her name”. She has no home and no place to go. She now has no father, or mother, or Jim. Somehow she is content with herself though because she is still standing up for what she believes in. When she goes into the pawn shop she just does not see objects, she sees the stories of women who have tried to live and have given everything they could, including baby shoes, just to live.
This has been a very touching story and I cannot wait to see what else is going to happen. I just hope that everything will work out soon and not too late.
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I, too, have enjoyed the novel so far. She has grown up immensely thus far from being a little naive little girl into a strong, devoted woman. It seems she has turned into somewhat of a feminist from what I've read so far. I think the fact that she is writing from the perspective of a non-Jewish worker really makes for more effective writing because the author is not solely trying to make the reader pity the Jewish workers, but try to make the reader pity the workforce as a whole, and then Malkiel makes the Jews stick out by praising their bravery throughout the strike.
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