Raphael's Reflection

After finishing this conversation with Donatello, it made it much clearer all of the main events in the story. This book was very complicated to understand, because the book was very scattered. It made it very easy to see where someone else was coming from and from that I was able to make better my arguments for a question. When Donatello answered question 3, she made an extremely good point that hadn’t even crossed my mind. The defense she used was that Hannah was affected most by the war, but that the relationship between her and Yair got stronger. This opened my eyes to a lot of other possibilities in the family and in the relationships in the story that I didn’t quite understand. Donatello used the quote, “Daddy doesn’t know everything, but when Daddy doesn’t know he says he doesn’t know” (Oz 206). When this quote was used, I had to go back into the story and reread it, and it made it a lot clearer to me. This conversation allowed me to see the depth of a lot of the problems that occur. Grandpa Yehezkel was one of the characters that I had a hard time understanding, but when we were finished the conversation, his role in the family was a lot clearer to me, and it made many other events, like the family vacation seem more relevant to the story. Also, having this conversation, made me reread a lot of different sections of the story, and that in it made it a lot clearer. Sometimes when reading the book, it was hard to keep up because the book was very busy. Since I had to go back and reread, it made some points clearer, because I had missed something slight to change its meaning. This book made me see that there are a lot of different styles of writing, and through the conversation it was easy to see that. This book opened my eyes to a whole new type of reading, and this conversation made me appreciate My Michael a lot more and also Amos Oz.