As I approached the end of the novel, My Name is Asher Lev, I began to think about the relevance of the story which I had just read. I felt very connected to the book and could not discern why it was affecting me in such an intense fashion. Initially I believed this feeling to be a connection to my experiences growing up within Judaism, but that explanation did not satisfy my curiosity. I turned …showed first 75 words of 869 total…

…showed last 75 words of 869 total…I still had to step out of my daily routine to be able to interpret the music I play while still incorporating my deepest emotions. By not going with the flow, I can show how I feel because I am not conforming to societal boundaries and ideas. I can understand the frustration Asher must have felt trying to express emotions that he neither truly understood nor was wholly comfortable displaying to the public. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**