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The film Witness operates on two levels and is ve

(Kraybill, 1989, 224-226).

Other writers have also noted how the press of tourism has impinged on Amish life. Some members of the community have moved away from areas they believed were becoming too busy and crowded. Others have adapted to the crowded roads, clicking cameras, and persistent questions of tourists, and some have even taken jobs in businesses that primarily serve tourists. Many Amish today supplement their income by producing quilts or other craft items for visitors (Nolt, 1992, 282).

The film certainly added to the influx of tourists and gave many people an image of Amish life they may not have had before. The Amish have a long history only hinted at in the film, and it is evident that those aspects of their lives that most separate them from contemporary life are what the filmmakers wanted to emphasize. There are five themes in Amish society which are examined in this film and in some ways both challenged and affirmed at the same time by the way the film treats the subject. These themes are separation from the world, voluntary acceptance of high social obligations symbolized by adult baptism, the maintenance of a disciplined church-community, the practice of exclusion and the shunning of transgressing members, and a life in harmony with the soil and with nature (Hostetler & Huntington, 1971, 4). The community and family life of the Amish mirrors the exhortation in Psalms 128 to live off the land and have a large fami

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