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Asher's Voice In Milk

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In the poetry book Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, it states, “You were so afraid of my voice I decided to be afraid of it too.” Having one’s own voice is an extremely significant part of life. One must be able to fight their own battles and grow as an individual, without any blockades. Correspondingly, Asher from the novel My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok is deeply fearful of his voice and how his community will react to his passion for art. The mythic ancestor in no way desires Asher to give into passion, and expresses this by appearing thunderously quite often in Asher’s dreams. The ancestor is just the way Asher’s mind punishes him for doing what he does, as he has been inundated with the idea that his art is inappropriate and evil. The

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