david grossmans yellow wind
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Jennifer L. Jones
NE425
Optional Discussion of The Yellow Wind
The Delta Edition of The Yellow Wind is covered, front and back, with blurbs from reviews done on the book. The most prominent one, placed in large print on the cover states, "Even the most cautious readers-and even the most hostile-are bound to learn something about the conflict that they never knew before..." Now, I must admit that this statement, coupled with the two photos of the stereotypical Israeli and Palestinian, caused me to avoid reading it before this class. For, being of the afore mentioned hostile and cautious reader group, I was deeply skeptical of the purpose of the book and wondered if it would really be, as Ruth Broyde-Sharon of the Los Angeles Times Book Review stated, "Perhaps the most honest, soul-searching book yet written by an Israeli."
My notes in the margins of the introduction reflect this skepticism, which, by the middle of the introduction, was firmly confirmed in my "hostile reader" mind as valid. For example, on the first page of the introduction, Grossman writes, I am a writer and not a politician, and the writers job, I believe, is to put a finger on the wound, to write anew...to shatter stereotypes that make it easy not to deal with the problems...