Brief Summary Of Reuven During World War II

Danny and Reuven’s relationship was a link between father and son, but this grew into something more, something life-long and unchanging. This friendship was true, it meant a lot to both of them, and their parents. However, after large disagreements in both Danny and Reuven’s religious lives and families, Reb Saunders excommunicates Reuven from the Hasidic community and Danny’s life.

Potok uses diction and syntax to dramatize Reuven's experience with Reb Saunders by using diction to relate Reuven's incident to the German Holocaust. For example, Reuven's first feeling is the loss of breath. "His reaction had caught me so completely by surprise that I had quite literally stopped breathing, and now I found myself gasping for breath." (Potok) Reuven's loss of breath relates back to the German Holocaust because of, "the brick cells where men sentenced to death by suffocation were walled up." (Rosenthal) During the German Holocaust, there was also suffocation dungeons. "Into the suffocation dungeons the visitor is taken for a moment and feels himself strangling." (Rosenthal) The diction used in both 'The Chosen' and 'No News

“What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye? … I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. . . .”

Danny Saunders and Reuven Malters could not be more different in appearance. Following Hasidic traditions, Danny had long earlocks, wore a tzitzit, and wore shoes with a metal bottom. Also, by he is in college his beard is full-grown. The only aspect, appearance wise, that the boys had in common in the beginning of the story were their black skullcaps. Reuven had always worn glasses, but after spending countless years reading every chance he got, Danny needed them too. The stress caused by the reading and from the pressures of his family became too much on his eyes and they started to turn red and develop bags underneath them. As the firstborn son, Danny had known, for as long as he could remember, that he was to take his father’s place as tzaddik and lead his own congregation. But Danny knew that he did not belong up on a podium preaching, just like Reuven knew that he was not meant to be a math professor. Reuven’s father, David, was one of his best friends. He talked to him

Danny and Reuven’s relationship progresses from tension in the beginning to an intimate friendship because of a mutual trust that is established. Danny says, “Sometimes I’m not sure I know what God wants though…I’ve never said that to anyone before” (80). From early on Danny feels comfortable confiding in Reuven. He shares his innermost feelings with Reuven and they form a closely knit bond. Danny and Reuven have a conversation; Reuven asks Danny, “Are you going to like being a Rabbi?” (82). Danny replies, “No, but I have no choice, it’s like a dynasty, if the son doesn’t take the father’s place, the dynasty falls apart” (Ibid.). This piece of evidence once again displays a profound trust the boys have. This conversation is a turning point for the book because Danny admits he does not want to carry on his father’s rabbinic dynasty. The fact that Danny openly shares this shocking information with Reuven shows how strong the boys relationship is. After a personal conversation Reuven narrates as he observes Danny, “I saw him begin to play absent-mindedly with one of his earlocks. We were quiet for a long

When Danny visited Reuven in the hospital he started to reveal how he really felt not only about Reuven but about his future. He started telling Reuven how he did not know if he really wanted to follow his father’s footsteps and take over being Rabbi. He also stated how much he studies every day and although he is good at his studies he does not enjoy it. This was all surprising for Reuven and opened his eyes to a different kind of Hasidic boy. His image of a Hasidic Jew was

The relationship between Danny and Reuven is a very big theme in The Chosen. Danny and Reuven are two boys who have grew up within a few blocks of each other, but in two entirely different worlds. They meet for the first time in at a school baseball game between their two Jewish schools. Even though at first their only feeling for each other is one of hatred, they eventually get over their differences and become the best of friends. They learn a lot about each other and about the others life and religion. The boys’ fathers have very different views and that’s gets them in trouble. Danny’s father disagrees with Reuven’s father’s point of view on a certain topic, and forbids Danny from ever seeing Reuven again. After some time Reb gets over himself and permits Danny to see Reuven again. This situation goes back to the fathers’ ways of raising their child and their view on their religion.

Repeatedly throughout the book we see Mr. Malter earnestly advising Reuven to befriend Danny. Once they are friends, he is persistent in making sure that Reuven is there for him, and supports Danny. Mr. Malter was not only aware of Danny's brilliant mind, but he understood his anxiousness to leave Hasidism. This desire was not stemmed from bitterness, although that by no means would have been unwarranted. However, Danny's desire was driven by him not wanting to be tzaddik, but to be a psychologist. There is a scene in the book where Reuven watches a fly caught in a spider's web. Intently Reuven observes as the fly struggles to escape the web, before the spider can make it's way to it. Reuven blows at the fly, attempting to help free him from

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The relationships between the boys brought the families a little closer than before. Although Reb Saunders and Mr. Malter did not agree on their theology they had one huge thing in common, Danny and Reuven were best friends. Their fathers poured wisdom into their friendship so that it could be strong and lasting. “You remember what the Talmud says. If a person comes to apologize for having hurt you, you must listen and forgive him.” (63). Mr. Malter explained to Reuven that he should forgive Danny who had come to ask for forgiveness after hitting Reuven in

At the beginning of the novel, their whole friendship wouldn't have started if one, Reuven didn't listen to his urging father and forgave Danny, and two, if Danny didn't stubbornly persist in visiting Reuven in the hospital, where he patiently waited for him to vent his anger. "Also, yesterday I hated him; now we were calling each other by our first names. I sat and

At first, Reuven does not understand why Reb Saunders treats Danny differently than any other father would treat his son. This is because Reuven is blind from anger and prejudice because he only knows Danny’s view of the situation. Reuven does not try to learn what Reb Saunder’s motives are, he only sees how upset this makes Danny. Reuven begins to hate Reb Saunders because of this prejudice and this affects him greatly. Reuven refuses to meet with Reb Saunders, even though Reb Saunders has been asking to see him for a whole year. Reuven lives with this hatred for so long, when he could have solved the issue much sooner. It is displayed throughout the novel when Danny tells Reuven,”The day before the start of Passover…he told me that his father had asked him once again why I wasn’t coming over to their house anymore,” (Potok 276). Reuven finally realizes his mistake when Danny brings him to his father, finally, after their second year of college. Reb Saunders tells Reuven he treated Danny in a certain way because he wanted Danny to have compassion, even if Danny would not take his father’s place. This makes Reuven realize that all along, Reb Saunders wanted to be there for his son, but he sacrificed that in order for Danny to be a good

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