Chaim Soloveitchik

Chaim Potok’s The Chosen set in Brooklyn, New York, tells the story of two Jewish teenagers, Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter, as they experience the effects the Second World War has on their religious traditions. Their friendship faces trials but is eventually re-strengthened. The boys’ relationship fluctuates as it moves from trust to compassion and then to restoration. Danny and Reuven’s relationship progresses from tension in the beginning to an intimate friendship because of a mutual trust

The popular author Chaim Potok struggled throughout his life with the sacred (Jewish religion and tradition) and the secular world. Potok suggested four possible responses for a person who faces confrontation with the sacred thought system and the secular thought system. First, the lockout response: a person escapes the conflict by erecting impenetrable barriers between the sacred and the secular and then remains in just one system. Second, compartmentalization: a person creates separate categories

Throughout my reading of the novel, The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, and I definitely did read it, I found three distinct values to be evident. Friendship, individuality and religion were very focused on and even shaped the lives of the two main characters. Each of these values have a big impact on my life not only since I have come to Augustana, but every day since I can remember. To define friendship is not easy. It is so many things and so many feelings. It is kindness, compassion, honesty

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

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

some instances, one has no choice but to be friends with someone else, but that does not need to be a bad thing. For example, nobody really has the choice but to love their family and have a certain level of friendship between themselves. Throughout Chaim Potok’s novel, The Chosen, many different friendships develop and grow. Reuven Malter often displays one factor of the two person relationships in these friendships. Potok put Reuven through many challenges and situations throughout the story that

the most famous acts of friendship in the Bible. Two women from vastly different religious and cultural backgrounds somehow formed a relationship that would not break, despite its hardships. The same thing happened to two boys, Reuven and Danny, in Chaim Potok’s novel, The Chosen. Through an accident in a heated softball game, Reuven realizes that Danny is lonely, and with the encouragement of his father, befriends him.. Reuven’s committed, attentive and challenging personality brings him close to

Role of the Fathers in Chaim Potok’s The Chosen Chaim Potok’s The Chosen is the story of a lasting friendship that blossoms between two Jewish boys, Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter, during and after World War II. On a deeper level, much of the plot focuses on the character of their fathers–Reb Saunders and David Malter–whose beliefs and ideals are rooted in two separate worlds. Reb Saunders is a zealous Hasidic rabbi who wants to impart his knowledge of his religion upon Danny and expects

After reading the short story Zebra by Chaim Potok I have identified the theme as you can never give up when things get difficult. My evidence to support this theme is “Then, a year ago, racing down Franklin Avenue, he had given himself that push and had begun to turn into an eagle, when a huge rushing shadow appeared in his line of vision and crashed into him and plunged him into a darkness from which he emerged very, very slowly. . .” This is the conflict of the story Zebra the main character of

Friends are beloved characters in peoples’ lives. Filling spare time, friends are people to talk to during both pleasant and trying circumstances. In Chaim Potok’s renowned novel The Chosen, Danny and Reuven share such a friendship. Both boys strive to assist and comfort each other even in problematic, slightly tense situations. Exhibiting his care for Danny, Reuven relates to him what he must hear, rather than what he wishes to hear, and Danny mentions first the friendship emerging between them