David Grossman, who recently has lost his son has written new novel. “In the End of the Land” Grossman’s book revolves around Ora, a mother from Israel, who has her son taken away because of duty his in war. Ora’s despair brings her to make conclusions of this unfair world of hers.Within the story, many critics have noticed that the story of Ora is the tale of Grossman, himself. “[H]is younger son, Uri, was killed in combat in the final hours of the 2006 Lebanon War” (Bronner) and it rendered him in form of lifelessness. Grossman’s writing was form of returning home, creating the stability that he lost when his son passed.
Similarly there is Shaharazad telling King Shahrayar these exciting mirrored image stories every night that, are intended for him to change what he does to the women he has. She wants him not to hold every woman responsible for his distrust, back to how he was before. Grossman and King Shahrayar both going through strange phases in their lives needed to hear their own told back to them, so that could have a chance to understand what they were going through.
