Week 5 Contract with God

Contract with God by Will Eisner is about a man named Frimme Hersh who lives in a tenement at No.55 Dropsie Ave. in the Bronx. To be honest, I never knew really anything about Jewish culture, but I can relate the Hersh. He made a contract with God and lived his whole life being good but then has daughter died. I know its not a strong comparison but I can compare it to when you come to work every day and never late, you do everything you're supposed to do and you're up for a promotion and the person that is always late and never gets anything done on time get the promotion and you don't. It seems like the contract you made with your boss is broken, kinda like the contract that Hersh made with God was broken. I'm the kind of person that does what I've been told to do and sometimes you can see how it would be easy to react the way Hersh did.

Eisner's illustrations are powerful even though their black and white. For example, when he is coming home in the rain, I can feel the weight of his loss hanging over him and he seems to be beaten down with each raindrop. Also, the illustration of him sitting on the floor after he has put his daughter's picture away is fully of pain because he is so distraught.

I liked that they included the backstory of what happened. Anyone would be angry at God if their child died but he had a special form of hatred. The backstory really helped explain this. I can relate to what happened in a way. For example, during high school all my art teacher really like my work and would say how proud they were of the work I've done, then I get to Ringling and I realized that it didn't matter how good everyone thought I was because reality was a lot harsher.