Were Not Jews
WE’RE NOT JEWS There are many immigrants from third world countries in the western world and very often they live under bad conditions. ... In this essay I will discuss the themes, characters and events in the short story, ”We’re not Jews” by Hanif Kureishi. ... Azhar’s family is not poor, but not well off either. ... ” The passengers and the conductor are pretending not to notice the verbal abuse Azhar and his mother are receiving, which is a very unfortunate common human response to something which we know is wrong, but doesn’t really affect us. ... “We’re not Jews”. ... The reason she says this is to console herself with the fact that there are others, Jews, who are worse off than she and her son are. Jews having been ruthlessly persecuted by the cold-blooded Nazi-regime of Germany the previous decade. ... He doesn’t seem like he has many friends and at home he is used to not understanding what is said.