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Global Experience, Judaism - Coggle Diagram
Global Experience
Family
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The Mind-body Problem
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She leaves her Ortho community to experience more, so she basically leaves her jewish faith and goes somewhere as she would say even the jews don't look jewish.
She meets this man and seduces him, they fall in love and get married, then she has this awakening and wants more then the family dynamic that she has. She does the most disrespectful thing you can do to your significant other and has affairs
American Pastoral
This book is alot of family drama. After Merry bombs the post office and runs away imagine what that can do the family dynamic.
This is what every parents fears I would think that if your child did some form of horrfic act would traumatize you as a parent forever.
Tenants of Moonbloom
Norman was a drop out and eventually turns to his brother for a job, his brother employs him to collect rent for him.
After doing more for his tenants he has a switch of thoughts about life that life has become meaningful because of the people that we Wass helping and what he is doing actually matters.
Trauma
Throughout most of these stories the characters inside them have gone through some form or another of a traumatic experience.
Survival in Auschwitz
There's a lot of trauma that goes along with the content of this story, but this is nothing new for Jews. For centuries they have been enslaved, murdered and looked down upon. This book was not written for the Jewish people but rather for everyone else to understand what actually happened in our darkest times.
In the book Levi says the entire purpose of the camps was "the demolition of a man" Imagine the kind of PTSD they had the years after getting out. Not only this kind of immediate trauma but trauma that will then exist for generations to come. I was born almost 60 years after the holocaust and I can still feel its effects.
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The Trial
Trauma can also be found in The trial, maybe less of a physical trauma and more of a psychological trauma.
being arrested for an unknown reason, being left "free", constantly wondering what is going on in his life, running around not knowing what's going to happen, only to be killed a year later and his final words were "like a dog" to describe what is going to happen to him.
Enemies, a love Story
Along with avoiding the holocaust, he loses his family and immigrates to the USA with the woman who saved him from suffering his families fate. Not knowing what happened changed him. Herman lost his Jewish faith because of this
He becomes what the author would describe as "A fatalistic Hedonist" which one would feel that since bad things happen we have to get as much pleasure as we possibly can no matter who or what we hurt, Being completely self absorbed.
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A Horse Walks into a Bar
I saw huge overlap in themes in this book, Dov's trauma was caused from his family.
Dov had a pretty good relationship with his mother but then she died which I feel would cause a lot of trauma for anyone.
His father is where the real trauma started, his father would punish him, after his mother died their relationship became only worse. The trauma he endured as a child would mess up anyone
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Judaism
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For whatever reason in a lot of the stories we have read it is common for the characters to lose sight of their faith, its just something that I've noticed
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