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I think JCO put Jacob Schwart in the occupation of gravedigger to show the difficulty immigrants go through when starting a new life. I can imagine the hardship of starting over in a new country, unable to speak the language. The old life is forever gone … Jacob's new job as a gravedigger might symbolize burying the past. Although evacuation from his homeland was supposed to be the family's salvation, he may have felt the migration was the beginning of the end for him. He was digging his own gra ...more
