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Gertie Hellmann
John Kelly is a Jewish boy living in the West Side Flats of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Though his real name is Shlomo Goldstein, he goes by John Kelly to avoid attracting negative attention from the Irish policemen who are largely antisemitic. John Kelly becomes Odie’s best friend during his time in the Flats.
John Kelly/Shlomo Goldstein Quotes in This Tender Land
The This Tender Land quotes below are all either spoken by John Kelly/Shlomo Goldstein or refer to John Kelly/Shlomo Goldstein. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 52
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We did his route together, tramping up one street and down the next, the houses all white columns, gingerbread trim, fancy shutters, and ornate wrought-iron fences, everything screaming wealth, and I thought about the world as I knew it then. There seemed to me two kinds of people—those with and those without. Those with were like the Brickmans, who’d got everything they had by stealing from those without. Were all the people sleeping in the great houses on Cathedral Hill like the Brickmans? If so, I decided I’d rather be one of those without.
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John Kelly/Shlomo Goldstein Quotes in This Tender Land
The This Tender Land quotes below are all either spoken by John Kelly/Shlomo Goldstein or refer to John Kelly/Shlomo Goldstein. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 52
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We did his route together, tramping up one street and down the next, the houses all white columns, gingerbread trim, fancy shutters, and ornate wrought-iron fences, everything screaming wealth, and I thought about the world as I knew it then. There seemed to me two kinds of people—those with and those without. Those with were like the Brickmans, who’d got everything they had by stealing from those without. Were all the people sleeping in the great houses on Cathedral Hill like the Brickmans? If so, I decided I’d rather be one of those without.
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