Jakob The Liar: Movie Analysis

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The Jews that knew each other wanted to stick together to help out each other but it didn’t always work so Elie’s father and Stein gave a portion of their bread to Elie then he could stay strong. The author wrote Elie’s father and Stein their relative from Antwerp would often give a portion of their bread to Elie so that he could stay strong so he wouldn’t be weak and targeted faster (44). This demonstrates that if Elie didn’t get any help from his father or Stein he would have died of weakness or killed by the Nazis because he wasn’t able to do work. I can compare this to the movie Jakob the Liar where Jakob gave most of his food to the little girl that he was hiding in his attic when he was in the ghetto. Based on what I read the Jews stayed

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