Covering up Reality with Fantasy to suppress Sadness and Emptiness
Hi guys. So my book is Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. So just a little background on the book
Everything is Illuminated tells the story of a Jewish vegetarian writer named Jonathan Safran Foer who is on a journey to find his grandfather's hometown and the woman who saved him during World War II. He's assisted by Alex, a Ukrainian translator with a humourous grasp on the English language; Alex's grandfather; Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior.
So my comparison begins with a character called Yankel who lived in the village the main character is trying to find but he lived there 300 years ago.
So Yankel adopts a baby girl called Brod and pretends that he is …show more content…
As she ran away she left a note that said: I had to do it for myself. This breaks Yankels heart and he tries to cover this pain up by creating these amazing stories of a wife he never really had and he starts to believe his own lies . Yankel starts to believe that this wife existed and he starts falling in love with her rereading letters he wrote himself and making the pain he felt for this non existent wife real. Yankel tries to cover up reality with fantasies and it almost works but reality always prevails because the note from his wife keeps turning up holding him back from truly forgetting his ex-wife. In the book it says: “ the real note kept returning to him, and that, he was sure, was what kept him from that most simple and impossible thing: Happiness. In this art piece we see a woman creating a winter landscape using a large needle and she sews up fabric to cover up the barren and dismal land. This directly correlates to Yankel as while he is trying to cover up the thoughts of his Ex-wife the woman is covering up the land with a seemingly more cheerful landscape. Yankel can not truly forget his ex-wife and we see this in the large stitches in the winter landscape and the expansive land that she has yet to cover. Both Yankel and the woman have a long way to go before
Hi guys. So my book is Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. So just a little background on the book
Everything is Illuminated tells the story of a Jewish vegetarian writer named Jonathan Safran Foer who is on a journey to find his grandfather's hometown and the woman who saved him during World War II. He's assisted by Alex, a Ukrainian translator with a humourous grasp on the English language; Alex's grandfather; Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior.
So my comparison begins with a character called Yankel who lived in the village the main character is trying to find but he lived there 300 years ago.
So Yankel adopts a baby girl called Brod and pretends that he is …show more content…
As she ran away she left a note that said: I had to do it for myself. This breaks Yankels heart and he tries to cover this pain up by creating these amazing stories of a wife he never really had and he starts to believe his own lies . Yankel starts to believe that this wife existed and he starts falling in love with her rereading letters he wrote himself and making the pain he felt for this non existent wife real. Yankel tries to cover up reality with fantasies and it almost works but reality always prevails because the note from his wife keeps turning up holding him back from truly forgetting his ex-wife. In the book it says: “ the real note kept returning to him, and that, he was sure, was what kept him from that most simple and impossible thing: Happiness. In this art piece we see a woman creating a winter landscape using a large needle and she sews up fabric to cover up the barren and dismal land. This directly correlates to Yankel as while he is trying to cover up the thoughts of his Ex-wife the woman is covering up the land with a seemingly more cheerful landscape. Yankel can not truly forget his ex-wife and we see this in the large stitches in the winter landscape and the expansive land that she has yet to cover. Both Yankel and the woman have a long way to go before