In the compositions, “What, of this goldfish, would you wish?” “without title”, and “ The American Flag Stands for Tolerance” the author's purpose is to inform us about acceptance, in all three of these compositions the authors show us that each person can show some acceptance for one another.

In the newspaper editorial “The American Flag Stands For Tolerance.” the writer Allen shows how acceptance should be a widespread belief, whether you believe in burning the flag or not, one should not discriminate someone, on what they believe. “Thus were we to embrace a prohibition on such communication, we would be saying that the First Amendment protects expression only when no one is offended.” (Allen 57) On the other hand Allen himself believes …show more content…
Keret is also telling us a story about a young boy named Yoni, who is making a film about the people of his country. He is going door to door asking people if they had a magical goldfish to grant them three wishes what, would they wish for. Most people said money, or to be younger, and some of the poorer people said food. But when Yoni reached a man named Sergei’s door, he was hesitant to talking to Yoni. “Sergei Goralick doesn't much like strangers banging on his door. Especially when those strangers are asking him questions. In Russia, when Sergei was young, it happened plenty. The KGB felt right at home knocking on his door.” (Keret 58). He slammed the door shut in his face, but Yoni came in anyways. When he seen Sergei had a goldfish like he had been asking about. All these years Seregi had kept the goldfish to himself, not because he was selfish but because he was lonely. Sergei, seeing yoni freak out about the goldfish, had over reacted and hit Yoni upon the head with a frying pan, thus killing