I chose to read the short story Job’s Jobs by Aimee Bender. The writer in the story is ordered by God that he could never write another word again he will be shot. So he listened to him and decided that the next best thing was to be a painter. But again God threatened his life. He went on to acting and again God would not let him. He tried to be an actor and a cook and God threatened to kill him. The man became very depressed. God showed up this time and told him that he was not allowed to do anything. God ordered him to shut his eyes and not to say a word. The man was tied up and confined to a box. The only thing he could do was let him imagination go where it wanted to.
No matter what or how many times someone takes something away from you, you are always going to find something that you are good at. There will always be options for you because at the end of the story the man still had the ability to dream even though had God taken away everything else, his thoughts were the one thing that couldn't be taken away. Sometimes we need to sacrifice the thing we love doing and I think that this is the main idea that Bender is trying to convey.
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