The Partisans are distinctly antireligious; they dream of a godless communism to supplant the bloody passions of a world they view as too irrational. The father (Mechanik) became an assimilated, nonreligious Jew, and throughout the book he struggles with his own inability to believe in God. At the same time he is trying with all his might to believe, against all logic, that his children will survive. How did the ending resolve this conflict in him, or did it? And what is Murphy suggesting about the place of religion in an ethical society, whether it be postwar revolutionary communist, or family-based? What place do you think religion will—or should—have for the main characters in their new lives?
Sunday, December 16, 2007
True Story of H & G - Week 3 - Religion
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Well since the Mechanik's children are all right and everything worked out in the end, after praying his children were still alive so he of course believes in god. If his children would have been dead he probably wouldn't have any faith in a god. It kind of gives the feel that the author wants the reader to believe that people only believe in a god when it works for them. I guess they should believe in a god because almost everything worked out for the main characters in the end. (It's hard for me to answer this one without putting my personal feelings on religion in this post)
The ending made him believe there was a God b/c he believed that his children were dead, but they showed up. Religion is family-based and if you lose your family, you lose your faith b/c a person can't comprehend how God, such a loving creator could do something like that to one person in a short period of time. It think that religion will remain in the new lives of the characters b/c they believe it was "God" that brought them together again. So they have him to thank for it their new lives.
I think that because he was kind of praying for the safe return of his children and that happened, he believes in God. Also, family has a lot to do with religion, if your family doesn't believe you most likely won't either and I think that the children still believe. I think his conflict was resolved because he was reunited with his family.
Mechanik knew his kids were allive. I dont think the praying did anything to help him but it was a happy ending. I think its good he had faith because if he didnt he probobly wouldnt of survived.
i think at the end when the father gets his kids back all his problems went out the window. i feel that the dad will believe in god again and will have faith for the reast of his natural life.
JV
In the end the Mechanik believes in god again because his children return to him safely. I think that Murphy is suggesting that you should believe in god because in the end the family was reunited.
I think that the Mechanik knew that his children will live. He had taught them all they knew. He thought that just maybe if he went back to their home that that is where the kids would go to find him and thats what happened. I think that if you belive in any kind of god that it is good because then you can have some sort of faith that can help you get your way out.
I think that since he thought he would never see his children again and then he was reunited with them at the end it could probably help him have faith in God. He had to have a least a little faith in the end because he was praying for his childrens return.
Obviously his reunion with the kids was a resolve, but for his generation it got much much better, but Poland still wasn't the same with Soviet occupation, especially regarding religion.
In the end since his children were fine and they were reunited, he had to of believed in God. Since he had hoped and prayed that his children would live and they did, he believed. If they did not, then that probably would not have helped the situation and he would not have believed.
-Meghan
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