Will Eisner's, "A Contract With God" is a powerfully written and well executed comic, which reminds me of a crime noir and an emotional relationship with God. The illustrations are composed in a simple manner emphasizing key moments of each scene with lots of drama. The realistically drawn buildings, cartoony characters and expressions complement each other with the story. The scenes with the rain are inked really expressively. You can see the rain just pouring down. There are huge puddles and does a great job drawing the rain drops.
The man, Frimme Hersh, is a very compassionate man who has a contract with God. He is a brilliant man and lives in a pour town. Even though he lives in a harsh reality he doesn't complain about it. He does good deeds for people and tells them ,"God will reward you!"This is very symbolic to the whole meaning of the entire story, which is the mans emotional and psychological connection with god. It elaborates on the idea that if you do an act of kindness for someone something good will happen to you as a reward. He is a hero for helping people at the beginning of the story; the end of the story after his child died his contract was broken with god he wanted to start his life over. After his child died he turned greedy because of the riches he had, which is when he wrote and signed a new contract. I can relate to this since I have the same compassionate personality of the man and a deep relationship with God myself.
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