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Short Story 'Free Fruit For Young Widows'

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In the short story “Free Fruit for Young Widows” by Nathan Englander, Etgar Gezer, a young Israeli boy, learns about harsh realities and the importance of context. The story started with a tale of Etgar’s father, Shimmy Gezer. He is a soldier in the Israeli Army and has sat down to lunch with his friend Private Tendler. Tendler proceeds to shoot the four other men sitting at the table with them and beats Shimmy for questioning it. The four men were the enemy, but they were not threatening. Fast forward a couple of years and Shimmy now owns a fruit-and-vegetable stand and gives Tendler his produce for free. Etgar questions this kindness wondering why his father would show such gratitude to a man who beat him. Finally, when Etgar was thirteen,
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