Etgar Keret

In all three of my short stories people have a hard time accepting others and their differences. My first short story I will be talking about is Ender’s Game By Orson Scott. In this story people don’t accept Ender because he was born third in his family making him a third. He also has a chip in his neck that was put in there when he was born because having a third child where they’re from isn’t normal and is shun upon by the people. “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming…

Acceptance equals Peace George Orwell, an English novelist, has said, “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” With this wise quote, Orwell says that to be happy you have to tolerate individuals who are different than you, no matter their background, politics, race, or religion. Acceptance and tolerance are shown in the novel by Harper Lee, titled To Kill a MockingBird. Those who believe that acceptance and tolerance is an idea that is not possible are completely wrong. Without a…

During the unit Ourselves and Others the theme of acceptance was not present in the stories that we read. In the short story “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” By Etgar Keret. During the book Sergei must decide whether to accept someone or to not accept someone who he should not fear. First in the book the boy is interviewing Sergei. “Until one day some kid with a ring in his ear… comes knocking”(70) That section of the book you can tell Sergei does not like the fact this boy is at his…

people who are different from ourselves.” Accepting others is very important. For another person’s happiness, as in “Without Title” by Diane Glancy, the needs of the community, reflected in the story “What of this Goldfish, would you wish” by Etgar Keret and for the stepping forward of a nation, shown in “American Flag stands for Tolerance” by Ronald J. Allen. “Without Title” a poem by Diane Glancy, shows the effects of people not accepting people who are different. The author paints the…

Collection 1: Analytical Essay Tolerance is the willing to tolerate something. “Texas Vs. Johnson” is an article about a man with the last name Johnson. He burned the flag and Texas is really against that and they fought over and fought until johnson won. The reason Johnson won is because he said burning the is freedom of speech and he won. “What of a Goldfish Would you Wish” is about this boy called Yonatan he would go around and interview people. But there was this one man that he interviewed…

because of your sexual preference, cultural preference or ideas. What if acceptance never existed? People have a passion for being accepted in their lives. Without it, they feel like they are simply nothing. William J. Brennan, Bill Brummel, and Etgar Keret made short stories and/-or films to portray this kind of world. The idea of accepting people based upon their cultural differences, sexual preferences, and their thoughts is the right thing to do in our world. In the beginning, of “Texas v.…

it’s okay; however, whenever we obtain a certain age, we are supposed to accumulate a certain level of common sense to know what is right and what’s wrong. To begin with, a short story called “What of this Goldfish would you Wish’ is written by Etgar Keret. This is a story with plenty of explanations of how we are shaped as human beings and would probably be recommended for advice about this topic. It is about a man who is loving, caring and always trying to help someone besides himself. He…

the wife and sister did not accept the husband because of his physical differences and because they thought he was trying to hurt their family. The third and final short story I will be talking about is What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish? by Etgar Keret. This story is about a man named Sergei that went around his city to ask people “if they had a magic goldfish that could grant them any 3 wishes, what would they be?” There were many different responses to the question he had been asking. One…

nothing to do with him. The boy is resilient, and insists that he takes part in the interview. As the boy is trying to talk to Sergei, he sees Sergei has a goldfish. The boy rushes into Sergei’s house and idolizes the fish, saying, “Goldfish, goldfish” (Keret 6). Sergei does not like this, so he grabs a burner off of his stove and hits the young boy in the head and kills him. Ironically, in the story, Sergei’s fish really was magic. Prior to Sergei killing the boy, he already used up two of his…

In both “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story,” by Russell Banks, and “Parallel Universes,” by Etgar Keret, multiple worlds are used in two different ways to cope with a loss being experienced by the main characters of the narratives. “Parallel Universes” has the most common form of multiple worlds as the individual that narrates begins with “There’s a theory that says there are billions of other universes” and goes on to imagine those other universes. However, this concept of other universes are…