Comparative Analysis of My Name is Asher Lev, Naked Lunch and Animal FarmWhat do a drug addict, communist pigs and a little Jewish boy have in common? No, this is not an anti-Semitic crack. In fact, the answer is really nothing. So how would Naked Lunch, Animal Farm, and My Name is Asher Lev make a good comparative research paper? There's no real magic involved. To resolve this perplexity, we must think like Chaim Potok who said that “no feeling, no thought and no sensitivity can be exploited, explored and revealed” (Abramson 59). By delving deeper into the fibers of history, satire, criticism, and philosophy that are woven into each of these stories, the connection becomes less ambiguous. As with many great novels, there is usually more to the story than what is written on paper. Each author, in their novels, incorporated their critical worldview into the story using the theme of the individual versus society. These views portray their cultures in the negative light in which they saw them. Therefore, criticism was a way for authors to expose and attack the evils that, in their minds, constituted the society in which they lived. These issues range from politics to religion to the human condition. My Name is Asher Lev, Naked Lunch, and Animal Farm were all written with specific social criticism in mind. Chaim Potok, author of My Name is Asher Lev, although an ordained rabbi of the Jewish faith (Abramson 2), sought to justify the "belief that no idea should be foreign to our world (Potok)" by calling questioned the Jewish belief that "art has no place in the Jewish faith." (Kremer)" Despite growing up in a strict Orthodox family, Potok was interested in art from a young age and,...... middle of paper ......l. February 2 1976. 321-322. Potok, Chaim. Interview with Jennifer Gilmett Seattle Pacific University October 29, 1997. http://www.lasierra.edu/~ballen/Potok.interviews. Southern College Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Dr. Jerry Gladson ed. http://www.lasierra.edu/ ~ballen/potok.unique.html#AsherSeltzer, Alvin J. Contemporary Literature Review. 42. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985. 80-85. Skerl, Jenny. http://www.bigtable.com/0009e.htmlSmyer, Richard I. Animal Farm: Pastoralism and Politics. Boston: Twayne's Masterwork Studies, 1988. 11-30. Smyer, Richard I. "Primal Dream and Primordial Crime: Orwell's Development as a Physiological Novelist." Discover the Authors Modules Online University of Missouri Press. , 1979. http://www.galenet.com