Character Analysis: The Chosen By Chaim Potok

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Each day something new happens, and when decisions after decisions build up, the choice has to be made what to do. Facing the hard times of the 1940s, Jewish people faced what to do about Palatine, and all the fighting going on all around them. In the book The Chosen, written by Chaim Potok, Chaim displays what good, solid, wisdom looks like in each unique character that he created. One caring man, David Malter, used his wisdom from the Talmud to teach high schoolers how to think logically, and was a wonderful guide for people who were seeking wisdom. Mr. Galanter, a gym teacher, also uncovered his pounding wisdom through teaching boys how to play baseball with a clever head. Fixing people’s outward burdens, Dr. Syndman treated his patients with care and wisdom when they came to him. These three men, David Malter, Mr. Galanter, and Dr. Snydman revealed their underlying wisdom when decisions had to be made, but made them with much thought and wisdom.

Leading youth in everyday, Jewish struggles, David Malter would guide many students with family struggles, and hard decisions that had to be made. David, also realizing that the older generations were
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Wisdom comes from living.” Wrote Anthony Williams. Each man who lives, gains knowledge, but wisdom comes only by living in circumstances, and each of these men displayed their lives fruitfully for others to see. Written by Chaim Potok, The Chosen expressed what wise men looked like in their own individual ways. David Malter willingly fed wisdom to all who listened, and was equally kind with his words. Mr. Galanter too led his students diligently with his wisdom of life and experience of many baseball games. Dr. Syndman, having the knowledge of medicine, cared for and discerned wisely what to do in each case that was brought to him. These men in their everyday life, changed worlds of others because of their wisdom of life and discerning

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