Stones From The River

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Jews, Catholics, and Protestants become victims of the Nazis. Religious prejudices are common throughout the novel. However, Hegi portrays Catholicism as the primary faith. The author scatters many fairy tales and stories inscripted about the different types of religion throughout the text. “Catholic water rusted Jewish cars.”(Hegi 88) However, the priest says, “Protestant babies [are] pagan babies…and the Jewish babies [are] like Protestant babies,” because they are not christened. (Hegi 58) In both the Jewish and Catholic religion different beliefs and celebrations bring commeraderie to the inhabitants of Burgdorf. While the Jews believe that Jesus is an exemplary man, but not God incarnate, the Catholics believe that Jesus lived and has died for our sins at the hands of the Romans. Catholics celebrate the Christ’s Last Supper by receiving communion, a major sacrament in Catholicism because; communion in the Catholic Church is believed ...

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the holocaust. There are unsuspecting religious, gender, or ethnic groups fear that a massacre may happen again. World War II is a religious war brought on to see who has more power. Innocent people fight for their countries and die to protect a fascist leader from taking over the world.
Hegi brings in literary symbolism throughout her novel. There are superstitions that, “Lucifer tortured pagans and Catholics who had died without confessing their mortal sins,”(Hegi 58) are abundant in Hegi’s novel. The reader is given references into other literary works such as Dante’s Pilgrimage. There is the description of “Lucifer used to be an angel before he ...

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