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    are and always have been just five blocks away. In “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok, the storyline was based in America during World War II, which is significant to the characters in the book because they are Jews. Even though they weren’t in Germany while the war was happening, they were still majorly affected by what was happening. To display the setting and significance to the novel, tone, and secondary character’s influence, Potok applied imagery detail, characterization, and dialect to this book

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    In the book The Chosen by Chaim Potok, Danny, a Hasidic Jew, is raised without communicating normally with his father. Even though Danny expresses interest in secular topics his father traps him in religious studies, restricting his thoughts and relationships. However, after a baseball game, Danny gains a new friend called Reuven, who is central to Danny’s mental transformation. By meeting Reuven and his father, Danny’s religiously restricted outlook on his future and life changes to be more forgiving

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    The Chosen: Prompt 7 The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, is refined with a relationship between two people, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, who come from very specific places. This allows for a story of true friendship and family relations. The book brings about a series of tests that question the integrity and principles of both main characters. Chaim Potok is able to isolate two different lives against the world and analyze a complex friendship. With this friendship comes differences and also certain

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    Chosen” by Chaim Potok illustrates the relationship between two teenage boys, Danny and Reuven, as they grow into adulthood and struggle to find a balance between conflicting parental expectations and their own desires. A prominent theme presented throughout this novel is that although one’s environment and experiences affects one’s distinct and personal identity, the individual is ultimately (ultimately, it is the individual who (is)) the one who decides his or her own identity. Chaim Potok uses metaphors

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    showers or not? Are they nice or just shrewd and prideful? Well Reuven from the book The Chosen by Chaim Potok, a Jew in the 1900’s, displays distinct characteristics that would surprise most people. For example, he stands for others when they need him, he even remains caring to those who have offended him. Reuven displays many characteristics that many people wish they had. In book The Chosen by Chaim Potok, Reuven displays amazing character traits such as unstoppable determination, unconditional kindness

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    The book The Chosen written by Chaim Potok can be very relatable to people especially teens. It starts in Brooklyn, New York in the 1940s and it is a story about how two Jewish boys meet and deal with the same issues during the end of World War ll. In the beginning they started as two strangers who lived fairly close to each other and played baseball against each other. During their game Danny Saunders hits a ball straight to Reuven Malter’s eye and puts him in the hospital. Danny comes to apologize

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    American singer and actress Ethel Waters once said, “We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.” Whenever people think of someone as gifted they tend to think of superpower type qualities. During the book The Chosen, written by Chaim Potok, it depicts several different characters pertaining different talents. Characters such as Reuven, Danny, or even Mr. Malter all possess abilities that help them in life. The types of gifts displayed in the book are not what people usually think of as special gifts

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    In the novel, The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, two jewish families from different sects are brought together through the blossoming of a deep friendship between their two sons during the 1940s. It focuses on the emotional bonds forged between traditional Orthodox Jew Reuven Malter and Hasidim Danny Saunders, that last well through their childhood adventures of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, and well into adult hood. It also follows their story of self discovery, parental acceptance, and how the

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    Reuven Malter plays one of the protagonists in The Chosen, by Chaim Potok. Reuven, who is around the age of fifteen and plays baseball for his all boys’ school. He displays his true leadership skills on and off the field with his teammates. In this story, Reuven experiences an eye injury caused by Danny Saunders during one of the games. Although the injury gives Reuven and his father much anxiety about the future, it also positions Reuven and Danny onto a long path of friendship. Reuven’s disposition

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    “Asher Lev, an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist” (Chaim Potok). An individual with different characteristics has a different mindset, attitude, confidence and respect from those around them. In Asher Lev by Chaim Potok, Asher is a Ladover Hasid who grows up in a Hasidic community, who is deeply committed to his Jewish faith and finds difficulty between the expectations of his traditions and his gift. He is an individual with a broad mindset

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