"The Conversin of the Jews"

I feel that the adults in “Conversion” handled Ozzie’s questions extremely poorly. Ozzie is just a curious kid who has unanswered questions about his faith. Instead of acting like his questions were valid and trying to explain their understanding of the Jewish faith to him, many of the adults were offended by Ozzie. The adults often blew him off and thought his questions were offensive so they refused to deal with him. I don’t think Ozzie was out of line to ask these questions because if you don’t understand something I think the logical thing to do is ask someone with more knowledge than yourself. If the adults in Ozzie’s life would have taken him seriously and tried to address his curiosity in a positive manor, Ozzie may have never misbehaved in such a rebellious manor. Being hit across the face for being curious is extremely unnecessary.

In this story I definitely sympathize with Ozzie’s character. I feel bad for Ozzie because he is unable to understand his religion and those who should be able to explain it to him get annoyed and treat blow him off. Ozzie also gets hit by his mother and teacher for asking questions, which is a drastic over-reaction and will only enforce Ozzie’s rebellious behavior. If Ozzie was able to express his feelings about his faith openly, I feel like many of his questions could have been answered in a calm manor and he would have developed an understanding for religion instead of creating more confusion.