Bread Givers Identity Analysis

Everyone has their own identity. We identify with different things within our identity. In Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska, each character identifies with something unique and they all show it in different ways. One of the ways I see a lot of people trying to identity with is a hard worker. We all want people to believe that we work hard for the things we have. To me a hard worker is someone who doesn’t give up on something they do, and someone who gives all they can to do something. Sara Smolinsky shows us that she identifies with hard work when she decides to go sell herrings at a young age, moves out on her own. and goes to college to become a teacher. Sara Smolinsky goes out to sell herrings at a young age because he family cannot afford

We all know that its really hard to afford college but she does it with the money from work. When she gets to college it isn’t really what she was thinking it would be. The people aren’t as nice as she hoped and the classes end up being harder then she thought. She doesn’t have any friends, she sits at home and focuses on her studies. Sara gets sent to the deans office a few times and end up having a strong friendship with the dean because she reminds him a lot of his grandma when she can to the States. He likes how hard she has worked to be where she is just like his grandma did. Sara finally finishes college and gets a huge scholarship at her graduation ceremony. After she graduates she rides the train back to her place in New York and she gets to ride in the nice part of the train. She says “If only I could have taken out my diploma and held it over my head for all to see. I was a college graduate! I was about to become a teacher of the schools!” (p. 237) Sara is so excited that she has finally competed her goal and has a job to go to everyday. She will no longer have to ration her money, she will be making enough money to support herself which is always an amazing feeling. Sara Smolinsky has pretty much worked her entire life to be able to have the career she wants. Sara ends up loving her job and falling in love with someone from her work. At the end of the book seeing how happy Sara is with her life after all the things she had to go through makes the book even