![]() ![]() This subject matter makes it worse for the situation between him and his family and his community. ![]() His everlasting dedication to his paintings sends Asher against his family and community, but it isnt just the act painting that has accomplished negativity apon their values, the subject matter Asher chooses makes it worse.Īsher chooses to paint nudes at a point in his life. Also, Ashers continuous devotion to his art turns him away from the service to the Rebbe and Russian Jews, leading to Ashers members of his family accepting it as their responsibility. His dedication to paintings distracts Asher from his Torah study, which the community sees as the proper way for a boy to spend his time, and that is defined by the episode in which he draws on a page of the Chumash. Ashers mother bluntly says, Painting is for goyim. Painting human figures is not a tradition among religious Jews. ![]() Asher confesses that he is a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon his family, his friends, his people. So strong words are being written and spoken about me, myths are being generated. Asher states at the very beginning of the novel (p.3) As a matter of fact, observant Jews did not paint at all - in the way that I am painting. Ashers devotion to painting is at odds with the values of his family and community. ![]()
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