“Old School” is written in first person singular, and this specific fact makes me feel like I am in

his shoes. I can see everything he describes about, and I assume that it is a good strategy. While using
this strategy, us, the people who are reading the story are receiving information only through the eyes
of the author. Everything is focused on what we learn from the author’s story. There is one element
described by the author with a sort of discomfort, being a Jewish. The young boy is attending an elite
school while trying to fit in with the rest of other students, who are very privileged. Moreover, he is
willing to hide the fact that he is part Jewish, just to be like the rest of the students. Another discomfort
element depicted in the story is when this young boy by accident whistles a Nazi song which he wasn’t
aware of, while walking with a professor in nearby. Afterwards, he felt very sorry about the pain that he
created.

Jewish identity in America is very tricky one. This specific group of people was considered not
only by themselves but for the rest of the world as being an outsider group, a persecuted minority.
Through time, in the USA this specific identity have become a very successful one, full of scientists,
doctors, wise minds.