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The ghost writer7/28/2023 I loved its engagement with identity (Jewish and otherwise), with how we are defined and the conflict between how we define ourselves and how others may have a completely different definition of who we are. I loved its slow dance with the idea of "storytelling", with the responsibility authors have when telling the stories of their subjects, with how each person is living in their own personal story. the novel was completely absorbing to me. What is a story? that is the story within stories within a story that is The Ghost Writer. the boy will probably continue to do this, rather than try to understand his real father's anger. and so the boy ghost-writes his own life, trying to imagine a new father figure, and after that person shows that he is unsuitable for the job, he imagines another person as his new father figure. the boy doesn't like his father's anger, doesn't like that his father's anger calls into question the boy's loyalty to the Jewish kind. a father who is angry with him right now. he creates a narrative for the girl that barely takes the girl into consideration, except for the basic facts that she is a girl and, like the boy, a Jew. except for the story of the girl! that's all him, his projection onto her. he doesn't create a story, he transcribes it. the boy is a writer, one who has yet to experience life. he turns her into a lure, a mystery, a travesty, into the best way to illustrate his Jewishness, the best way to thumb his nose at his parents and all the adults who would dare condescend to him. The boy ghost-writes the story of a girl's life.
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