Chaim Potok

The book, The Chosen, was written in 1967, by Chaim Potok. This book was about two boys, Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter, growing up in Brooklyn, New York. They met because of a softball game when Danny’s team played Reuven’s team. They became best friends and hung out at the library until the Zionist movements grew. Because of Reuven’s father being a Zionist, he joined in with the movement. While Danny’s father was Hasidic, he was opposed of the movement. Because their father’s opposing views,

Two Jewish, teenage boys living parallel lives in New York City meet each other and realize the challenges that are faced during a friendship, especially when their religious beliefs are very contradictory. In The Chosen by Chaim Potok, the narrator, Reuven Malter, is a Modern Orthodox Jew and Danny Saunders, the other protagonist who is a Hasidic Jew, become friends after a tragic incident at a local baseball game. After reading The Chosen, I realized how much knowledge about the Jewish faith

Friendship: the emotions or conduct of friends, the state of being friends. In the novel The Chosen by Chaim Potok neither Danny Saunders, and Reuven Malther lives would have been the same without each other. One afternoon two alike rival baseball teams play an unforgettable baseball game, Danny Saunders stated to Reuven Malther “ I told my team we’re going to kill you apikorsim this afternoon.” In this statement alone he creates a tense relationship between him and Reuven. For Reuven this afternoon

The Moment that Hit Home The Chosen, written by Chaim Potok, is a coming of age novel that touches upon the difficulties of family relationships and religious disputes. The story describes the lives of two teenage boys, Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter, living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn New York in the 1900s'. Danny and Reuven are on entirely separate spectrums because Danny is a Hasidic Jew while Reuven is an Orthodox Jew. While both boys were on the Baseball field playing against one another, Reuven

The Chosen Essay 11/20/15 Differences between people often cause resentment and anger. In chapter one of Chaim Potok’s novel The Chosen, the main character, Reuven, struggles to control his emotions when confronted with an unfamiliar Hasidic baseball team. Potok uses Reuven’s first person point of view to reveal Reuven’s conflicting emotions towards Danny and his baseball team. Potok begins his novel with a striking observation to set the tone for the first chapter, acknowledging that the main

In my book cover for The Chosen by Chaim Potok, I use conflicts, themes, and cultural viewpoints to develop my book cover. The first technique that I used is juxtaposition. Two hands are extended across, on the left hand there are religious symbols such as the Talmud, The Star of David, and the earlocks. On the other hand there are symbols that represent freedom to Danny, things such as educational books and Freud psychology books. Choice is being juxtaposed –Danny can either choose religion or a

years the way people have been seen has changed, before Jewish people were seen as horrible people who were not right in the head and although that has changed people are still hateful towards Jewish people. In the book “The Chosen” the author Chaim Potok shows two jewish boys and how they are raised during World War Two. One boy Danny Sauders is in Hasidic Judaism and the other boy is Reuven Malter who is in Modern Orthodox Judaism. Some things that happen in the book relate to events that are

The Chosen The Chosen is a novel by Chaim Potok that explores the friendship of two Jewish boys, one Orthodox, one Hasidic, who must overcome their different beliefs and make the journey from adolescence to adulthood. There are many interesting qualities to the novel that keep wondering what the final outcome will be for the two boys. One interesting topic is how relatable many of the characters are to my own life especially Reuven in relation to myself. Another topic worth discussing is the

Faithful Friends Friendship certainly plays a significant role in Chaim Potok's novel The Chosen. This fascinating story follows the lives of Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders as they develop and strengthen an intimate relationship. In addition to befriending Danny, Reuven initiates touching friendships with Billy Merrit and Tony Salvo, two of his fellow patients during his tenure at the hospital. An only child who suffered the loss of his mother after birth, Reuven thirsts for the loving companionship

Chaim Potok’s novel, “In the Beginning” follows David Lurie’s scholarly journey as he begins to study biblical criticism despite the opposition he faces from his community and family, who consider biblical criticism an anti-Semitic practice of tearing apart the word of the Torah (Potok 1975, 372-374). Lurie’s examination of what critical biblical scholars have said about the Torah, gives a reflection, in narrative form, of how academic study of the Bible can be used to find appropriate meaning within