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A Wolf in the Soul
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A Wolf in the Soul is a 2014 novel by Ira T. Berkowitz.Gregory Samstag is a not atypical Jewish teenager from Long Island. But he can't help but feel that his life lacks meaning. He went to a religious high school, but he and his family don't care enough to be religious. He himself has begun attending Columbia University, but there's nothing in particular he wants to learn. His parents are a complete mismatch for each other and they know it, but can't quite bring themselves to divorce. Recognizing the emptiness of his life, Greg puts up a wall of apathy between himself and the world - but he still can't or won't bring himself to change anything.Only one thing threatens Greg's carefully structured yet meaningless existence: the fact that stray dogs keep randomly walking up to him and depositing fresh kills at his feet. Okay, that and the hairs that have begun to sprout from his forehead. And the weird fits he keeps having in which he hallucinates living the life of a wolf. And then he starts growing a tail...The werewolf in Greg upends his entire existence. His desperation to find an answer revives a dormant, hesitant belief in God. He is forced to flee the university and the country after viciously attacking another student. His absence causes his parents' marriage to finally begin falling apart. And through all this is the seductive feeling, growing ever stronger, that the life of a wolf would be simpler, easier, more innocent than the life of a man. | |
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Resist the Beast | |
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Resist the Beast: Played straight with the physical transformation, but Greg keeps his human mind at all times except for during his out-of-body experiences. | |
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Vegetarian Vampire | |
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Vegetarian Vampire: Nastily averted. In fact, it is suggested that Greg's vegetarianism as a human makes the carnivorous behavior of his wolf form a lot harder to control. | |
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Hitler Ate Sugar | |
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Hitler Ate Sugar: How Greg's father reacts to his becoming a vegetarian. | |
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Heel–Faith Turn | |
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Heel–Faith Turn: Greg becomes a better person, such as learning to finally appreciate his best friend, through returning to Judaism. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Though almost all of the Hebrew and Yiddish appearing in the book is either translated for the reader or simple enough to be accessible to non-speakers, there are one or two places where the text leaves a phrase unexplained. | |
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In the End, You Are on Your Own | |
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In the End, You Are on Your Own: Averted. Though the story seems to be moving in this direction as Greg is forced to leave his friends first at Columbia and then in Israel, the climax of the book has him defeating the wolf with the help of Joey and Holmes, the latter behind the scenes.. | |
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Cursed with Awesome | |
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Cursed with Awesome: The linchpin of the story. In order to be victorious, Greg needs to fully internalize that this isn't the case, even if he already thinks it's horrible on an intellectual level. | |
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Totally Not a Werewolf | |
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Totally Not a Werewolf: Inverted. Greg fits the standard werewolf tropes a lot more than do the species of werewolves described in the mythology. | |
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| A Wolf in the Soul / int_40bb59d0 | type |
Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: "What, this? This isn't a wolf, it's my pet dog, Muffin. Do some tricks, Muffin." | |
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| A Wolf in the Soul / int_4180cb75 | type |
Alternate Identity Amnesia | |
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Alternate Identity Amnesia: Averted. Greg remembers everything he does as a wolf, which is the only reason he has a fighting chance. | |
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness | |
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness: Holmes makes several attempts to explain what is happening to Greg in the context of Jewish mysticism. Dr. Rumu, with her Indian mysticism, oddly seems to have a more thorough grasp of exactly what is going on, but despite this she is less able to provide a cure. | |
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Separated at Birth | |
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Separated at Birth: The Crowe twins. | |
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| A Wolf in the Soul / int_4852f325 | type |
I Just Want to Be Normal | |
| A Wolf in the Soul / int_4852f325 | comment |
I Just Want to Be Normal: Zig-zagged. Greg wants to defeat the wolf... but it feels too good to be able to let go. | |
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| A Wolf in the Soul / int_4bfd2125 | type |
Straw Vulcan | |
| A Wolf in the Soul / int_4bfd2125 | comment |
Straw Vulcan: Played straight with Professor Toledano, who Greg says "couldn't step out of his rational ideology" and therefore "could hardly even feel the pain in another person's heart". Greg wasn't able to bring himself to show his pain to Toledano at all, so this complaint feels hollow. Ultimately subverted, though, with Hakham Dawid, who says many of the exact same "overly rational" things Toledano said earlier in the book, but imbues them with more meaning. | |
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Silver Has Mystic Powers | |
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Silver Has Mystic Powers: Greg's inability to gargle silver water helps Dr. Belew make his diagnosis. | |
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Savage Wolves | |
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Savage Wolves: Greg vs. geese, Greg's wolf's pack vs. its father's pack. | |
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Silver Bullet | |
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Silver Bullet: Name-checked. | |
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School Play | |
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School Play: Greg plays the Cowardly Lion in a Hebrew translation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. | |
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Mentor Occupational Hazard | |
| A Wolf in the Soul / int_6b6556ee | comment |
Mentor Occupational Hazard: The Hakham Dawid is removed from the story thanks to suffering a stroke. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| A Wolf in the Soul / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Several. Greg's last name, Samstag, means Saturday/Shabbat in German. Aram is a reference to Aram Naharaim, where Abraham came from. The Hakham Dawid has the same last name as the Chida, whose writings provide a few clues. | |
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Cannot Spit It Out | |
| A Wolf in the Soul / int_6f07b093 | comment |
Cannot Spit It Out: Why Greg doesn't tell anybody about his condition for the first two-thirds of the book. | |
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Wolves Always Howl at the Moon | |
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Wolves Always Howl at the Moon: Averted, in combination with a Freudian Slip: | |
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All Jews Are Ashkenazi | |
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All Jews Are Ashkenazi: Very much averted. Almost everyone in the story, in fact, is at least partially Sephardi, other than the two major supporting characters who are black converts. The author is even careful to differentiate between Ashkenazi and Sephardi pronunciations when transliterating Hebrew. | |
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Left Hanging | |
| A Wolf in the Soul / int_80b5924 | comment |
Left Hanging: Although Greg manages to defeat the werewolf and returns to normal, many other subplots, such as his parents' marriage and the reason he was infected in the first place remain unresolved. | |
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Dramatic Thunder | |
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Dramatic Thunder: Jack Crowe makes a dramatic statement and is very disappointed when this doesn't happen. He tries a few more times. Still doesn't happen. | |
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Grammar Correction Gag | |
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Grammar Correction Gag: Greg feels compelled to correct others' grammar, at least in his thoughts. Even while they're shooting at him. | |
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Prayer Is a Last Resort | |
| A Wolf in the Soul / int_8dea4592 | comment |
Prayer Is a Last Resort: A mixed example. Greg begins to question his disbelief in God surprisingly quickly, but his prayers are half-hearted because of his uncertainty. Even when he starts to pray out of desperation, he does so merely because Holmes said it would help, and his prayers are still fairly rote and dispassionate. It is only when he sincerely thanks God for the existence of his best friend that he takes a major step towards being cured. | |
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Religious Stereotype | |
| A Wolf in the Soul / int_926425c8 | comment |
Religious Stereotype: The book is harsh on non-Orthodox Judaism, invoking the Orthodox stereotypes that it is inconsistent, hypocritical, and lacks meaning. | |
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My Instincts Are Showing | |
| A Wolf in the Soul / int_9578d077 | comment |
My Instincts Are Showing: Greg starts doing insane things like eating raw meat right in front of his family. | |
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Artistic License – Religion | |
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Artistic License – Religion: The author admits in the introduction to creating some highly speculative aspects of Jewish mysticism that may not be in any way accurate. | |
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Doctor's Orders | |
| A Wolf in the Soul / int_a929d574 | comment |
Doctor's Orders: Greg visits two new-age doctors of his mother's acquaintance while trying to find out a way to fix what's wrong with him. Both of them inexplicably know instantly that he has wolf-related issues. Dr. Rumi tells him to either eat meat more regularly, or go full ascetic, and to leave the country (implied because she knows that Greg will eventually run into the wolf he's become spiritually connected to). Dr. Belew immediately proclaims him to be a werewolf and gives him water with silver in it. | |
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Foot-Dragging Divorcee | |
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Foot-Dragging Divorcee: A rare example in which both parents are dragging their feet. They're still dragging their feet when the book ends. | |
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Wolf Man | |
| A Wolf in the Soul / int_abf92023 | comment |
Wolf Man: As the werewolf grows stronger and stronger, Greg's transformation back into human form each morning becomes less and less complete. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Several chapter titles are names of animals. The first three are Goose note (not Goat, oddly enough), Cat, and Dog. | |
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The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body | |
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The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Strongly averted. Long before he ever becomes a werewolf, Greg demonstrates animalistic behavior. His actions as a wolf can't be so easily blamed on the wolf. | |
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Holy City | |
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Holy City: The middle third of the book takes place in Jerusalem. | |
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Against My Religion | |
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Against My Religion: Aram convinces Greg to eat a pepperoni pizza, defeating his objections by pointing out that Greg doesn't follow any of the other precepts of Judaism. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: Greg's high school's initials are HAWL, pronounced "howl". | |
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Informed Judaism | |
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Informed Judaism: How Greg ultimately comes to view his parents' behavior. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Greg is named after Gregor Samsa. Two street names mentioned offhandedly are named Voorhees and Lois Lane. Greg's therapist is named Holmes. | |
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Good Shepherd | |
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Good Shepherd: Hakham Dawid. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: Aram helps Greg escape campus police by giving him a ridiculously conspicuous hat. After all, the police will be looking for someone skulking around trying to hide, not somebody walking proudly down the street wearing garish clothes. | |
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Just Woke Up That Way | |
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Just Woke Up That Way: Multiple theories are espoused to explain why Greg is transforming, but none of them are completely satisfying and answer all the questions. | |
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They Would Cut You Up | |
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They Would Cut You Up: Why Greg doesn't tell his family about his condition in the last third of the book. | |
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Crossover Cosmology | |
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Crossover Cosmology: Dr. Rumu may actually be psychic, and her Indian-mysticism-based advice to help Greg defeat the werewolf turns out to be very accurate, though ultimately insufficient. A very minor example, but its presence in a religious Jewish book is odd. | |
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Evil Feels Good | |
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Evil Feels Good: Being in wolf form provides Greg with some very tempting escapism. | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different: Two types of werewolves are described in the book, completely unrelated to each other. One is an entire species of wolves who can take human form after consuming human blood. Greg, however, has something entirely different and altogether more mysterious. Dogs begin following him and leaving him gifts, he sees a wolf standing serenely in midair out of a second-story window, and he has blackouts that last only a few minutes or hours but during which he apparently lives out years in a wolf's body. While in wolf form, Greg is also immune to bullets, but though the effect of silver is discussed on occasion we never get to find out if it would hurt him or not. It's suggested that he has developed some psychic connection with a real, actual, wolf somewhere out there, which then seeked him out physically, confronted him, and then somehow began transforming his body - but there are a few holes in that theory as well, and a lot of it is left deliberately unexplained. | |
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Easy Evangelism | |
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Easy Evangelism: Sort of. Greg abandons atheism surprisingly quickly, but it takes him a very long time to embrace religion in its entirety. Even at the end of the book he has a long way to go. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Sermon | |
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Suspiciously Specific Sermon: The Hakham Dawid engineers this by inviting Greg to a specific sermon on the subject of wolves. Weirdness ensues. | |
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