American Pastoral Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 111 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

American Pastoral Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 111 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Chapter 1

• Swede Levov is a magical figure in the Jewish neighborhood of Weequahic in Newark, New Jersey.

• He is a gifted athlete with Gentile features; the entire Jewish community is in love with what he stands for as a successful American Jew.

• The author of this story, Nathan Zuckerman, is a childhood friend and ping-pong player with Swede's younger brother, Jerry. Nathan comes excitingly close to being acknowledged by the Swede.

• Nathan reminisces about a story called "The Kid from Tomkinsville" and contemplates whether Swede could encounter the same kind of disaster as the fictional hero.
• Swede's grandfather had come from the old country and became a manufacturer of ladies' gloves in a neighborhood of mixed immigrants starting various businesses.

• Lou Levov, Swede's father, worked in the family tannery and learned everything about making gloves, from the slaughter of animals to the dyeing of skins.

• After family bankruptcy...

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