Honestly, before reading "A Contract With God," I really didn't know what to expect. This was the first graphic novel that I have ever read and I found it interesting to read on many different levels. I noticed many differences compared to just reading a normal novel or book. One thing that I noticed was how the pictures really added to the writing within the novel. Each picture really backed up or enhanced what Eisner was saying. This also made it easier to follow and was able to keep my attention throughout all four stories.
Now if we focus on the stories themselves, the story that I found to be the most interesting and less "disturbing" than the rest of the stories was the title story "A Contract With God." I think that the main theme of the story was that people always have a relationship with god whether they have a contract or not. Frimme focused too much on the contract that he had made with god. Some things don't always go the way we want them to, but god is always there. Frimme Hersh failed to realize this in the story.
Another theme related to god that I thought the epilogue brought up was that anyone is capable of having a relationship with god and spreading the word of their faith. When Shloime found Frimme Hersh's contract with god, he decided that he would also have the same relationship with god. It was as if Frimme's good deeds and devotion carried on to Shoime after Frimme died.
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