. . . yes, I also find it somewhat troubling. Although I am kind of amused that I can definitely see the whole 'I am just getting into Judaism and isn't the history interesting and exciting!' thing in the novel (there is a close friend of the family whose grandmother dramatically revealed that she was Jewish ON HER DEATHBED, and said friend of the family went through much the same thing.)
And I did notice that also! That is part of the reason I think I found Supaari most interesting, also because there is a lot less 'here is what you will like, here is what you will not' and a more complex presentation. I also felt like the Grand High Jesuit whose title I forget escaped to some degree. Both of these things bothered me more in the beginning and less as I went on, though. (And I was very relieved when The One That Nobody Liked died a perfectly blameless death instead of going on to prove the If Nobody Likes Him, He Is Therefore Bad axiom.)
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. . . yes, I also find it somewhat troubling. Although I am kind of amused that I can definitely see the whole 'I am just getting into Judaism and isn't the history interesting and exciting!' thing in the novel (there is a close friend of the family whose grandmother dramatically revealed that she was Jewish ON HER DEATHBED, and said friend of the family went through much the same thing.)
And I did notice that also! That is part of the reason I think I found Supaari most interesting, also because there is a lot less 'here is what you will like, here is what you will not' and a more complex presentation. I also felt like the Grand High Jesuit whose title I forget escaped to some degree. Both of these things bothered me more in the beginning and less as I went on, though. (And I was very relieved when The One That Nobody Liked died a perfectly blameless death instead of going on to prove the If Nobody Likes Him, He Is Therefore Bad axiom.)