"A Contract with God" is actually the first graphic novel I have ever read. I really enjoyed it along with the discussion in class today. Something i really did not pay as much attention to as I will in future graphic novels is the illustrations. There were so many things I did not catch do to my lack of attention to the drawings.
My favorite tale in the graphic novel was "A Contract With God" though parallels could be drawn within all of the stories. I was particularly interested in the ending after the epilogue. When the child, with so many parallels to Frimme Hersh, picks up the stone with the contract on it. The ending seems so open-ended and up for interpretation which we discussed in class. Did Eisner mean to claim that this boys fate was to be the same as Frimme's?
The biblical references we made with the contract in class helped me to understand the story better. Just as there were covenants in several places in Jewish history. The covenants not kept in biblical times were similar to that in "A Contract With God"
The way the tennents on Dropsie Avenue all struggled for happiness in a new country displayed the difficult life these people had. With racism being shown in several areas of the graphic novel, it made it clear that it was not easy for the Jewish immigrants. Eisner potrays a very difficult time in US history for immigrants, and he does it using his own experiences along with fiction.
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