Kavalier And Clay

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay written by Michael Chabon and is a six part book with several chapters. It all started one night in Brooklyn when Samuel Klayman was sleeping in his bedroom, all of a sudden his mother walks in and slaps him to wake him up. She introduced him to his cousin Josef Kavalier from Prague, who will be staying with them temporarily. He recently escaped the Nazis, and was looking for a fresh new start to his life. The book then flashes back to when Josef was growing up in Prague. He was very interested in escapism, like Harry Houdini, where a famous escape artist taught him by the name Bernard Kornblum. During his learning he practiced a lot and wanted to get invited to the Hofzinser Club , which is where all the great magicians and escape artist join together. One night he decided to practice the escape he would do in front of the members of the Hofzinser Club in order to revice access. His little brother Thomas and …show more content…

Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.” This quote says that it should not matter what you are leaving that you should be more worried about the next chapter in your life that you are going to. Be prepare to encounter more struggles then what you left in order to make your life better for yourself. Another one is “We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place...” we in today’s society deal with heartbreak quite often, which is very sad to say. In reality we will experiences a lot of heartbreak before we find the right love, this quote is exactly what everyone thinks when experiencing love that their heart was already broken many times that it can not possible break like that last time. It will take many times to mend a broken