![]() ![]() ![]() He could have had a singing career, but the street singer looses the opportunity because of his drinking and inability to remember where the Diva lives. “The Street Singer” is a drunken man who sings in the tenement alleyways and is “discovered” by Diva Marta Maria, a once famous soprano. Eisner lost is own daughter to leukemia at the age of sixteen. Hersh sees the death of his daughter God’s violation of their contract. ![]() In “A Contract With God,” we meet a man, Frimme Hersh, who looses his faith after the sudden death of his daughter. Each story deals with aspects of “faith” as the predominant theme. Plot SummaryĪ Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories is a collection of four semi-autobiographical stories – “A Contract With God,” “The Street Singer,” “The Super,” and “Cookalein” – set in a 1930s tenement in the Bronx, with “Cookalein” also taking place at a vacation spot for Jews. A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories, a semi-autobiographical work, is often referred to as the first graphic novel, but many have argued that it is, instead, a collection of loosely related “graphic novellas.” Eisner’s book helped set the stage for the future of the graphic novel form. ![]()
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