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I keep jumping around with my books, I know. That's kind of what you get when you read more than one book at a time. Both The Plot Against America and Don't Turn Around are two good books that I seriously recommend, though, and they're different enough to read simultaneously.
Focusing on the theme of The Plot Against America, it can be pretty easily gleaned. On a more general scale, any decent reader will draw the idea that perseverance is huge at this time for the Roth family: perseverance against the Republicans and perseverance against the Hitler ideas and perseverance against the internal conflicts of the trying times. The Republicans have already killed Walter Winchell. (who was, in fact, a real person; a radio gossip commentator and political figure, known for name-calling and slang in his writings) After Winchell's death, the power balance between Democrats and Republicans was thrown severely into the Republicans' favor. Additionally, Hitler's ideas were spread in America through Lindbergh, the close friend of Hitler and the President of the United States of America. These two factors and several other smaller life struggles for the Jewish Roth family left them fractured: a father and mother constantly bickering, a young protagonist left on his own with a friend he didn't like, and his older brother who seemed to have an allegiance to the opposite political faction.
But perseverance.
The theological meaning is the continuation with grace to eternal salvation. If the Roth family, who are heavily Jewish, remember, continue to live together, to continue to exist in hostile territory which they call home, they might survive and be known not as a family but as survivors. The oppressed. The beaten-down. The lesser class. The people who were stripped of their freedom and their public favors and their status and they lived. The theme of The Plot Against America is undoubtedly: Resiliency through trying times leads to a greater compensation. If the Roth family can endure what plagues them now, they will be brought to the light as being those who were "right", those who were challenged for their beliefs and they won.
That wraps up this post. More The Plot Against America and other books will be featured in future posts.
Yo David! I think this is a really relatable theme and you analyzed it really well. I feel ya when you said that perserverance is key. I am actually interested inreading this book. What do you think of it so far?
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