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After reading, The Kite Runner and Sharpe’s Rifles, The Gift of Asher Lev contrast with those two novels. The characters in each novel have come from a specific religion for each novel, Islam for The Kite Runner, Christianity for Sharpe’s Rifles and Judaism for The Gift of Asher Lev. Chaim Potock wrote The Gift of Asher Lev in the early 90’s and the contrast is seen with the Hasidic movement and a world famous artist in the modern world.
In Chaim Potock’s first book about Asher Lev, My Name Is Asher Lev, the reader sees Aher as a child and sees his extraordinary talent of painting develop throughout his childhood into his teenage years. In this book Asher is banished from his Hasidic community in Brooklyn, and Asher leaves to go to France to further his painting career and become a world famous painter.
In the beginning of the novel, Asher tells that he is living in France. He is married with a son and daughter and is a Hasidic painter. Asher later finds out that......

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