Chaim Potok's Asher Lev is a book of how young Asher grows and develops into an artist. ... After a series of occurrences, such as his milestone during his bar mitzvah, or his daily visits to the art shop and his perpetual drawings, which cluttered up his tiny room, Potok decides that it was about time Asher matured, and took his destined artistic talent as a serious career. ...
The novel The Gift of Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok and the film The War, Written by Cathy McWorter, both embrace the theme of cultural rebellion and illustrate its significance through the use of style, symbols and setting as they affect the beliefs and family customs of the protagonists. ... (Potok 118) This implies Asher's decision to continue his artwork and his rebellion against the cultural restrictions that have attempted to conform him. ... Asher tries to answer to the intense questioning of his Jewish relations, "I wanted to paint suffering, and there are no motifs in Jewish art...
