Summary Of The Story Of Mendoza The Jew '

The story of Mendoza the Jew reveals a couple ideal values of the English society at the time like anti-Semitism, honor, nationalism, and male dominance. Mendoza the Jew takes place in East London with a guy named Daniel Mendoza. Daniel Mendoza is a Jew who was known for boxing and creating Britain's favorite leisure activity. Daniel Mendoza grew up in a place where Jew's were not treated properly, and he had to adapt to the society around him and their cultural norms. In this paper, I am going to explain how Daniel's story reveals English values like anti-Semitism, honor, nationalism, and male dominance.
Aldgate East London, at the time, was considered a rough neighborhood where all the Jew's lived because they were too poor to afford anywhere else and they were the minorities. During Mendoza's time, Jew's were looked down upon because the country he lived in consisted mainly of people who believed in Christianity. Jews during the time were banned from countries all over Europe for being Jewish and often had to practice their religion in secret. Because of society consisting of all Christian, Jews were looked at as minorities in society. In Mendoza the Jew, anti-Semitism is shown when Daniel is working for a fruit seller and a lady discriminates the …show more content…
Mendoza really adapted to nationalism and really showed his love for being a Jew and wanted to fight and make a better image for Jew's. Daniel opened up a boxing class mainly meant for his fellow Jew's to learn how to defend themselves. To me, I think that Daniel opening up this class for anyone but mainly to Jew's was him trying to make a change and really create a better image for Jew's. A lot of Daniels fights I think he really took in the factor that he was the underdog in these circumstances and wanted to show that Jew's were more than just a minority, hence why he kept fighting to