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5 pages in length. The primary theme throughout the literary artistry of author Chaim Potok revolves around Jewish pride, familial relationships and accepting one's heritage. A strained cultural home life complicated by Lev's need to exhibit his pain through art in "My Name is Asher Lev" effectively illustrates how Potok is quite successful at telling tales of cultural struggle and the inherent commitment that accompanies it. In portraying the characterization of these various bonds and relationships, the author's quintessential components are to draw together the very basic qualities that exist within the confines of Jewish and Christian cultures. No additional sources cited.
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and accepting ones heritage. A strained cultural home life complicated by Levs need to exhibit his pain through art in My Name is Asher Lev effectively illustrates how Potok
is quite successful at telling tales of cultural struggle and the inherent commitment that accompanies it. In portraying the characterization of these various bonds and relationships, the authors quintessential
components are to draw together the very basic qualities that exist within the confines of Jewish and Christian cultures. Potoks Asher Lev is
as simple as he is complex. The lucid and uncomplicated images he creates with his seemingly elementary style are anything but; in fact, the complexity that resides within his
characteristically simple impression, which demonstrate a purity and precision like no other, are known only to those who can see beyond their fa?ade. Attention to outer detail and an
unquenchable desire to portray his inner pain, author Potok favors a more simplistic approach to convey the immense struggle his protagonist endures throughout his life. Utilizing the concepts of
surrealism and imagism, the troubled artist cleverly and quite appropriately captures his audience with images of his own anguish. "I went back to the bed and lay on it
with my eyes closed. Now there was ice and darkness inside me. I could feel the cold darkness moving slowly inside me. I could feel our darkness.
It seemed to me then that we were brothers, he and I, that we both knew lands of ice and darkness. His had been in the past; mine
was in the present. His had been outside himself; mine was within me" (Potok PG). Potoks extreme humanitarianism and devotion to
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