"Sarah's independence is related to her attitude towards values related to her ethnic group, in particular through her father, which in absolute opposition to what she calls" normative "in some way It seems. "Racial normality." Japtok represents Sarah's way of thinking, when enough fathers came to drive customers away from the shop, she knew something could be done for her life It is. Become a teacher, "School teacher - me.
The life of Frederick Douglas in the story of Frederick Douglas' life and the life of Sarah Smolinsky, the bread supplier written by Anzia Yezierska, are two excellent examples of self-discipline in pursuing freedom. Although the social environment is very different, Frederic Douglas was a slave of a black man in the south from the beginning of the 19th century, but Sarasmorinsky was a minister of the Jewish people in the southeastern part of New York in the 1920s. It is an immigrant. They were all caught by oppressors. Frederick Douglas is legally a slave and Sarah Smolinsky is "slavery" by his father.
The Smolinski family among the bread donors is a typical immigrant suffering in the process of assimilation. By observing Sara and her father's point of view there is a gap between cultural differences and differences between generations. And it is the one most faced by immigrant families. Sarah, while immigrant child, was bound by the culture of her home country, but unlike other sisters, he gave up his culture to absorb the dominant American culture. In pursuit of her dreams, she also sacrificed her family's separation, her youth and suffering in her experience.
Sarah desperately sought out among the 9 bread donors and found a job at the clothing factory. It is the same as the factory that hired an immigrant girl just for every dollar. She explained that the factory was small, crowded, smelly, and filled with fresh air with little flowing smoke. On March 25, 1911, a similar textile factory The Triangle Shirtwaist Company flames up. The factory is in a 10-story, 3-storey building in Greenwich Village, New York. As the fire expanded, young Jews and girls of immigrants around the age of 14 began to notice the staircase door locked in accordance with these factors. "I was distracted by his employees, finally about 150 immigrant girls were murdered in the fire and the rest of the survivors were arrested because they made an alliance with these factories.