![]() ![]() ![]() The men tell of how their parents are very concerned and overprotective of their sons. Roth brings himself and his family alive through the characters and happenings of the story. Roth joined the army in 1955, just ten years after the end of World War II, so through these men’s difficulties you can see what Roth himself probably went through during training. The main characters in this story also include Sheldon Grossbart, Michael Halpren, and Larry Fishbein, three Jewish trainees trying to deal with the difficulties of basic training and also those of being true and faithful Jewish men. The story is written in first person allowing us to follow Sergeant Marx’s true perspective and feelings on what he is going through in the story. In “Defender of the Faith” we watch a Sergeant in the United States Army come back from fighting in World War II and come to terms with his Jewish faith and what it truly means to him by reconnecting with a part of his heart he hasn’t been able to use for a long time.
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