Bread

Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers attacks several social norms of both hertraditional Polish homeland and the American life her protagonist has cometo know. Clearly autobiographical, Bread Givers boldly questions why certainsocial and religious traditions continue throughout the centuries withoutthe slightest consideration for an individual’s interests or desires. Sara’straditional Jewish upbringing exposed her to a life dominated…

King Vidor’s 1934 film Our Daily Bread is aptly named, for the film is of a prayer than an actual solution to the Great Depression. Like other Socio-political films of the era, it tries to offer a solution to the problems faced by so many Americans. However, Vidor’s message gets lost somewhere between the poor…

“It’s not what’s on the outside that matters, it’s what’s on the inside,” is something I would hear a lot from my mother growing up. I wasn’t the prettiest duckling in the nest; my legs were lanky and I looked like one of those anorexic children on TV, I also had a birthmark on my…