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Spielberg Denies the Name Shmuel, Explained：pariah
His grandfather stands on the porch and yells the Hebrew name "Shmuel!" across seven houses. Friends ask if that is him, and the reply is "No, he must be calling somebody else." The joke is about a name. Underneath, belonging wins: he denies the name rather than fail to fit in.
あらすじ
In an interview, someone traces belief back past a retracted word, "not even spiritual," to religious roots: an Orthodox upbringing, Hebrew school, and a grandmother who taught English to Holocaust survivors. The family lived where there were no Jews. Outside, kids chanted an insult. In the front yard, a grandfather yelled "Shmuel!" and the boy denied the name while friends laughed.
注目の表現
Eternal Lightnot even spiritualcultural dividedirty Jews
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このシーンの表現
pariah
someone the group casts out
The speaker ties the denial to pariah: what a child had accepted is dropped if it makes him an outcast.
Speaking up about the mistake would make her a pariah in that office.
このシーンの他の表現
- Eternal Light
the synagogue lamp kept burning
- not even spiritual
rejecting a word just spoken
- cultural divide
a gap in how two groups live
- dirty Jews
a slur aimed at Jewish people
- picked on
singled out and teased
このシーンのメモ一覧
40 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ
gradually nearer
And I just remember getting closer and closer to this red light where all these old men--appositive: The second name restates the lamp; it does not add a new object.
And the red light was the Eternal Light, the Ner Tamid, and that's my very first memory.accept that it is real
- Lacy: Do you believe in God? - Yes.faith inherited at home
It comes from my-- you know, my spiritual-- not even spiritual, my religious roots and family.Let the t in not flick lightly into even.
It comes from my-- you know, my spiritual-- not even spiritual, my religious roots and family.a deep effect on someone
All my grandparents had a very strong influence over me.brought up in that tradition Here Orthodox means strict Jewish observance.
We were Orthodox. I was raised Orthodox.a gap in how two groups live
After a house full of tradition set among non-Jews, someone repeats cultural divide as a hard fact of those days.
And there was a real cultural divide in those days between Jewish people and Gentiles, a real cultural divide.an antisemitic insult — Only when reporting the insult; never as something you call a person.
Adler: I remember that at one point, kids were standing outside and chanting "the Spielbergs are dirty Jews."treated worse for who you are
Spielberg: I certainly experienced being excluded and being picked on and discriminated against.bullied for sport — Casual among friends, and too loose for a written complaint.
Spielberg: I certainly experienced being excluded and being picked on and discriminated against.blend in and not stand out
Right after the exclusion, fit in names the only wish: get inside the group and stop being visible.
All I wanted to do was fit in.no possible way then
And by being Jewish, there was no way I could fit into anything.Put the weight on no way and ease off after it.
And by being Jewish, there was no way I could fit into anything.using every bit of voice
As loud as he could, "Shmuel!"object clause: One that starts the report; the other that points at the boy himself.
And I immediately denied that that was me.off to the side, still heard
And meanwhile, in the background, you can hear my grandfather yelling with a Russian accent, "Shmuel!"unlike others in a risky way
He didn't want to be Jewish because it made us too different from everybody.a family smoothed into the majority
Someone calls the Father Knows Best household an assimilated family, meaning it already looks like everyone else.
And the "Father Knows Best" family is an assimilated family.ache for something
And I think he really yearned for that.turn a person into an outcast
began to deny everything that I had accepted as a child and was not willing to accept if it was going to make me a pariah.conditional clause: If names the point where acceptance would cost him a place.
began to deny everything that I had accepted as a child and was not willing to accept if it was going to make me a pariah.personally ashamed
I was ashamed of myself.a long unbroken period
I still feel ashamed of myself even remembering that long stretch of my life where I didn't want to be Jewish anymore.relative clause: Where attaches to the stretch of years, not to a physical place.
I still feel ashamed of myself even remembering that long stretch of my life where I didn't want to be Jewish anymore.The consonants in didn't often thin out, so don't punch them.
I still feel ashamed of myself even remembering that long stretch of my life where I didn't want to be Jewish anymore.「Spielberg Denies the Name Shmuel」を読み解く
What's really going on
Asked about God, the answer reaches for "my spiritual," then cancels it with "not even spiritual" and lands on "my religious roots and family." Home is Orthodox, with Hebrew school and bar mitzvahs, yet "we always lived in neighborhoods where there were no Jews," and a "real cultural divide" is said twice. Kids outside chant a slur at the family. "All I wanted to do was fit in" is answered at once by "there was no way I could fit into anything." The yard makes the impossibility visible: a grandfather yells "Shmuel!" from the porch, friends laugh, and the line comes back, "No, he must be calling somebody else." Against that stands the "Father Knows Best" household, called an assimilated family, the one he yearned for. He "began to deny everything that I had accepted as a child" if it would "make me a pariah," and the shame, he says, is still with him.
Theme
IdentityDenying the shouted name Shmuel, and later denying what he accepted as a child, so it will not make him a pariah.
GuiltHe says he was ashamed, and is still ashamed, remembering the long stretch when he did not want to be Jewish.
発音のポイント
- not even — Let the t in not flick lightly into even.
- no way — Put the weight on no way and ease off after it.
- didn't want — The consonants in didn't often thin out, so don't punch them.
And the red light was the Eternal Light, the Ner Tamid, and that's my very first memory.The earliest memory he can place is a red lamp in a synagogue, the lamp that stays lit, with old men chanting beneath it.
All I wanted to do was fit in.Belonging is the whole wish. In a neighborhood without other Jews, he does not ask to be understood; he only wants to pass.
And by being Jewish, there was no way I could fit into anything.The wish to fit in dies in the same breath. Jewishness, as he remembers it, blocked every group he might have entered.
And I immediately denied that that was me.When friends connect the shouted name Shmuel to him, he refuses it at once rather than let the yard hear that the name is his.
I still feel ashamed of myself even remembering that long stretch of my life where I didn't want to be Jewish anymore.The shame is not confined to the yard. Looking back at a long period of refusing to be Jewish, he says the disgrace is still present.
このシーンについての質問
Why does he deny that the name Shmuel is his?
Friends hear a grandfather yell "Shmuel!" from the porch and ask, "Is he talking to you?" The reply is "No, he must be calling somebody else." He has said that all he wanted was to fit in, and that being Jewish meant "there was no way I could fit into anything."
What is he still ashamed of?
He "began to deny everything that I had accepted as a child" once it might "make me a pariah," across "that long stretch of my life where I didn't want to be Jewish anymore." He says he was ashamed, and still feels ashamed remembering it.
Why bring up the Father Knows Best family?
A voice says Steve "did not want to be Jewish" because it made them "too different from everybody." The "Father Knows Best" household is then called "an assimilated family," and the speaker thinks "he really yearned for that."
Why does the answer take back the word spiritual?
Asked "Do you believe in God?", the answer offers "my spiritual," withdraws it with "not even spiritual," and puts "my religious roots and family" in its place. The following lines name grandparents, Orthodox life, Hebrew school, and bar mitzvahs.
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