Danny Saunders In The Chosen By Chaim Potok

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

Another type of silence in The Chosen is the silence that exists between Danny and Reuven and is no product of their own; it is the silence that Reb Saunders enforced upon them when he forbade them to speak or spend time together. It was a silence that came into being because of the different beliefs of their fathers, though only Danny’s father acted upon it. “There had been an explosion yesterday at breakfast, last night at supper, and this morning again at breakfast. Danny was not to see me, talk to me, listen to me, be found within four feet of me. My father and I had been excommunicated from the Saunders family.” (pg.230). The silence not only deeply hurt the boys, who were true friends, but also infuriated Reuven. Reuven had never approved of or understood the silence that Reb Saunders had created between himself and his son, and Reuven thought it to be cruel—after all, he had seen Danny’s pain and confusion over the matter and knew how hard it was for him. He was furious at Reb Saunders for not only tearing apart their friendship, but especially for tearing it apart with that hated silence. “I hated the silence between us and thought it unimaginable that Danny and his father never talked. Silence was ugly, it was black,

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In Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen”, Reb Saunders knowingly raises his son through emotional detachment in the form of his own silence towards Danny. Reb Saunders methods, although rather neglectful and harsh, serve Danny successful in the grand scheme of his own intellectual success and his tzaddik soul. Reb Saunders reflects on his own childhood and states “My father himself never talked to me, except when we studied together. He taught me with silence. He taught me to look into myself, to find my own strength, to walk around inside myself in company with my soul” (Potok 284), through this form of parenting, Reb Saunders learns to raise a strong fully willed child who recognizes others weaknesses with respect and mercy, without forgetting himself

In the novel Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning there contains a thesis in which the novel is centered around. This thesis is the theory that these ordinary people could commit these atrocities in the Holocaust because of the pressure from their peers and country that were participating in these appalling acts of violence and massacres of innocent people.

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 represent deeply committed friends. Their live intertwine when historical circumstances , religious realities, and their father's differences in child rearing dramatically affect their respective senses of security and happiness.

In Chaim Potok’s The Chosen, two contrasting characters are introduced—Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders. They are opposites. While Reuven is forward—speaking his mind, Danny Saunders shows a stark contrast—an inflective soul, listening to silence, and growing from it. These characters set the stage for a lasting relationship to form, to be strengthened, and to be stressed.

On the other hand, Reuven and David mutually support the notion that the lines of communication between them should always be open. Whenever Reuven struggles with a problem or simply a question, regardless the significance, he comes directly to his father for assistance. David listens intently and offers a few suggestions or delivers a thorough answer to his son’s query. For example, when Reuven wonders about Danny, David answers with a lengthy and detailed account. This demonstrates not only the comfort they bear in talking to each other but also the patience they’ve developed that has stemmed from their communication. Despite their lack of communication, Reb Saunders and his son share the same admiration, respect, and trust for each other that are consistent with Reuven’s and David’s relationship.

In Chaim Potok’s The Chosen, Danny Saunders is a Hasidic Jew with an amazing mind, who lives with his tzaddik father, Rebbe Isaac Saunders, and all of his followers. Rebbe Saunders never speaks to Danny except when discussing Talmud in order to force Danny to be compassionate. Danny does not understand why his father does this, and is in constant torment because of it. In the neighborhood where he lives there is an expressed tension between the different sects of Judaism, of which Hasidism is thought to be an outcast even of them. Danny has a love and great talent for baseball, but sport is considered sinful on many different levels to most Jews. Danny nevertheless convinces his father to allow him to create a baseball team, on the grounds that they defeat an Orthodox Jew's’ team led by a Coach Galanter (the other best team in the league), at their own game. During the game Danny meets an Orthodox Jew who is excellent at pitching, on the other team,

In all of their conversations, Mr. Malter seeks to pass his moral wisdom onto Reuven. At the beginning of the novel, after Reuven refuses to listen to Danny’s apology, his father visits him at the hospital to discuss his

In the book “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok, two boys named Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders meet for the first time as rivals in a baseball game, taking place in Brooklyn, New York during the year of 1944. These boys live in an Orthodox community that is shaped by Jewish faith and culture. During the baseball game, Danny throws a strong violent pitch which hits Reuven in the eye causing him to be hospitalized. Despite Danny’s Hassidic Jewish religion, the boys soon begin to become friends through Reuven’s time at the hospital. Danny and Reuven bond over their Jewish faith, family, values, and most importantly their hopes for the future. While Reuven is a more introverted boy who loves to read and gain knowledge, Danny

When Reuven came home from the hospital and went to his room he didn’t imagine Danny laughing at him, but was thinking about Danny and remembering he would see him the next day. The next day came and Danny met Reuven on the porch where Reuven was sleeping dreaming about Danny’s eyes. Once he had woken up Danny led Reuven to meet his father had his shul. They arrived at the synagogue, and fifteen minutes had passed where Danny’s father, Reb Saunders had been preaching and quizzing Danny, but now he moved on to Reuven. Reb began questioning Reuven on religious knowledge, although it pressured Reuven it was necessary in order for him to be Danny's friend.

When Danny goes up to bat later in the game, he hits a line drive and accidently hits Reuven in the eye sending him to the hospital. This is essentially where the friendship starts, when Danny goes and visits Reuven in the hospital. From that point forward the boys were friends, learning about one another and their families. Danny’s father is a rabbi and expects Danny to follow in his footsteps, but Danny loves to go into the

In The Chosen a boy named Reuven ends up meeting another boy named Danny. The way the two meet is in a baseball game was Danny hits the ball right into Reuven’s eye who is then sent to the hospital. Danny feels bad and ends up visiting Reuven they become great friends who trust and stay by each other’s sides. The run into some trouble when each father believes in spread beliefs it shows that both boys are brave and strong in keeping their friendship