Chaim Potok

goal, keeping their lineage safe. The Chosen written by Chaim Potok parallels the real world in that love is the backbone of this desire for parental protection. As a result of all the emotion put into safeguarding their children, many parents wind up controlling their child's life, and the children never see the sentiment behind the control. Through Reb Saunders's motivation behind his silence and its subsequent impression on Danny, Potok conveys…

with family and faith is big and important. Having conflict with your family can really ruin a family and break it apart. Having conflict with faith leaves you confused and lost. In two of Chaim Potok’s novels, The Chosen and The Promise we see both conflict in family and in faith In The Chosen by Chaim Potok there is a lot of conflict with family and faith. To start off with Reuven and Danny become good friends after Danny nearly blinds Reuven during their intense softball game. Both boys are…

Extraordinary, a word that comes to mind when thinking of the special character Danny in Chaim Potok’s novel, The Chosen. Danny, a very gifted student always pushes and thrives to understand more. He possesses the ability to think much differently than his peers. Danny boldly choses to make the right choice no matter the outcome of each situation. Backing down from a challenge would seem cowardly to him. With the qualities Danny maintains such as his intelligence, devotion, and being very well…

Chaim Potok was a great writer who used wrote The Chosen to show how some grew up in a place while historical events from World War II were occurring at the time. The novel revolves around two fifteen year old boys by the names of Reuven and Danny, they grew up in the street of Williamsburg, New York at the time World War II was coming to an end. In The Chosen, Chaim Potok showed some aspects of the having a friendship although you may have different opinions in some occasions and how it…

example of Chaim Potok’s life. The Chosen is one of Potok’s most famous works, for both its eloquent writing and its addressing of pressing issues for Jewish people. Chaim Potok, in his novel, The Chosen, alludes to aspects of his own childhood, education, and career to reveal and further characterize both Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders. The life of Chaim Potok is one which can be categorized as the typical life of a Hasidic Jew, but with interesting hints of modern culture as well. Chaim…

Click. Select. “Ava Grossmann” Type: click, click, click, click, click. “Clocked in at 3:27 pm” I Looked up. “Hi, Ava!” “Hey!” “What are you eating?” “A caramel roll, I made them last night”. “I’m surprised you made it to work, since I guess you had to leave the kitchen and the bedroom to make it here.” Stop. Look up. I asked, “how is that funny?” He replied, “Well, Ava you should know…” Stop. Snarky replies flashed across my mind. No. Smile. Turn-around. Walk-away. My…

belonging and identity. Potok separates the modernized Jewish culture in America from what he thinks is the true and original Jewish culture. This mirrors his life as an American Jew born and raised in the New York. Potok values the relationship of family in his books, especially between father and son, as the father would pass on their culture down to the son so that it can be passed for many more generations to come. There is also great emphasis on teachers in Potok’s books. As Potok has…

for fun, at times, it gives readers a false idea about their lives and realities. Every once in a while, readers stumble across a book that emits authenticity, and allows them to relate to the characters and situations that occur. The Chosen by Chaim Potok is one of those books. This book overcomes other novels because of its contrasting representations of family, its compelling stories of hardship, and its comical development of friendship between two boys. To begin, this book…

An Exemplarity Friendship Throughout the world, friends often look to each other for support and reassurance. Within the book The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, two boys grow up together and experience friendship first hand. This book tells a story about a boy, Reuven, who meets another boy called Danny. Despite their different religions, Reuven lives as an Orthodox Jew and Danny and his father follow Hasidic Judaism, both Reuven and Danny defy the odds, and become best friends. According to…

in The Chosen by Chaim Potok. All throughout the book, they play a big role in what Danny and Reuven, the main characters, must go through. Often, Danny is the one who has the traditions almost forced on him. However, because Reuven became Danny’s closest friend, much of it affects him too, at least to some extent. Danny specifically struggles throughout the book, as much of his life has been picked for him by his family according to their traditions. In The Chosen by Chaim Potok, religious…