Literature has many concepts and genre to present and Ecology is no exception. Will Eisner's A Contract with God could more accurately be called a "graphic cycle" in that its narrative structure is based on four short interconnected stories, all linked by the common setting of a 1930s Bronx tenement house. The study takes the Graphic novel to many depth concepts and understanding. This work has short-story cycle than it does with the traditional novel. Through his composite structuring, Eisner links his Dropsie Avenue stories in such a way that the meaning of each individual story is largely contingent upon that of the others in the text. The study of A Contract with God explores the concept of man vs nature with the characters used in the work. The main character is a deeply religious Hasidic Jew named Frimme Hirsch who carves a contract with God on a stone tablet. When he wrote it, he was grieving the death of his daughter from leukemia. His argument with God and scolds him for the death of his daughter. This rage comes as man vs nature. One can’t deny the supremacy of nature and natural happenings but he argues with almighty take it to the level that it happened because of him. Study also focuses man vs nature have the bridge and cultural perspectives from man vs man side.

1. InternationalVirtualConferenceonEnvironmental
ImaginationandGreeningofLiteraryStudies
27&28July,2022
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Author:
Kaushalkumar Hareshbhai Desai
Research Scholar
Department of English
Shri Govind Guru University, Godhra
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Dr. Anuragsinh D. Puvar
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Mahila Mahavidyalay, Vadodara
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“ManvsNatureintheGraphicNovelofWill Eisner’s
AContractwithGod”

2. Graphicnovel
• According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, graphic novels are
stories that is presented in comic-strip format and published as a
book or written and illustrated in the style of a comic book.
(Graphic novel)
• Will Eisner’s A Contract with God referred as the first Graphic
Novel.

3. WillEisner’sAContractwithGod
o Four stand-alone stories make up the book: in "A Contract
with God" a religious man gives up his faith after the death
of his young adopted daughter; in "The Street Singer" a
has-been diva tries to seduce a poor, young street singer,
who tries to take advantage of her in turn; a bullying racist
is led to suicide after false accusations of pedophilia in "The
Super"; and "Cookalein"

4. ― WillEisner
“You are learned in the Word of God,
And if you know His Word, you know His
Will.”

5. “ManvsNatureintheGraphicNovelofWillEisner’sAContract
withGod”
 Man vs Nature
My grief was still raw. My heart still bled. In fact, I could not even
then bring myself to discuss the loss. I made Frimme Hersh’s
daughter an “adopted child.” But his anguish was mine. His
argument with God was also mine. I exorcised my rage at a deity
that I believed violated my faith and deprived my lovely 16-year-old
child of her life at the very flowering of it.

6. “ManvsNatureintheGraphicNovelofWill Eisner’sA
ContractwithGod”
 The character Frimme Hersh believed to be having a signed
bond with God. Here, portrayed as nature will take care. But it
can be like blaming nature for anything happened. Hersh
adopts her and names her after his mother, Rachele. But one
day she suddenly falls ill and dies, causing Frimme to cry
out to God: “NO! Not to me! You can’t do this…We have a
contract!”.
 He accuses God of violating his part of the contract. “If God
requires that men honor their agreements…then is not God,
also, so obligated??” Furious, in the middle of a storm, he
throws the stone out of the window, as the building shakes…

7. Conclusion
• Frimme hersh’s comments on God and as supreme nature for
everything happens because of that power (reason)is something which
challenges the rules of almighty and natural perimeter. That is the
marvel of his alliance, by which “if we are faithless, he remains faithful”
(2 Timothy 2:13), given that God does not treat us as we deserve. His
love and his goodness is shown precisely in the fact that he saved us,
“not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his
mercy” (Titus 3:4-5).

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