Live and Become

Notes/ on identity

- In Africa they are accused of being Jewish... In Israel they are accused of not being Jewish enough.
- In Israel people are racist and ignorant, going as far as to which school because Schlomo was a black kid from Africa and they believed he had diseases.
-Schlomo struggles with being in the new land where they want him to learn all the Jewish traditions, he doesn't want to become what they want him to be. He is not Jewish. He is Christian.
-Schlomo likes to sleep on the floor instead of on the bed, reminds him of home.
-Schlomo likes to walk bare foot to feel the earth, also reminding him of home.
-Schlomo wants to eat with his hands instead of with a fork.
-He gets his own Bar Mitzvah
-He doesn't understand what he must become
-He wants to go back home, doesn't want to call his adoptive parents mom or dad. he misses his real family.
-Some kid believes black is a curse from God.
-Schlomo believes that Adam is Red the color of the clay not white not black.
-Many of the immigrants have comment suicide because of the way they are treated by the whites.
- In Israel everyone does a term in the military, so when Scholmo went into medical school instead his "father" was every angry.
-The day a white women marries a black guy she becomes black
-In order to marry Schlomo Sarah had to leave her family they dis-owned her.
- Sarah doesn't care that he isn't Jewish
- He became a doctor without boarders
- He found his mother


This movie was every good. It showed the struggles of going into a nation you don't want to be, where you know no one. And your told this is better for you, yet you see negativity everywhere you turn. You have to pretend your someone your not, to survive... how do you not lose your self? that is the question.


by Amber Leigh Lovell