Chaim Potok

it in a fruit salad.” This quote defines wisdom and knowledge simply, showing the difference between the two. The use of wisdom adds on to knowledge, not only knowing a tomato is a fruit, but also that it does not go with a regular fruit salad. Chaim Potok, author of The Chosen, writes about three characters, Reb Saunders, David Malter, and Danny Saunders. The theme of wisdom runs throughout the book, through these characters. David and Reb teach and lead many people, having the wisdom to know…

Want to read a book whose rich themes will make a long lasting impression on readers worldwide? In The Chosen by Chaim Potok, the main character, who is an orthodox Jewish teenager named Reuven, tells a story that will impact the hearts and minds from all walks of life. During a heated baseball game, a baseball shatters Reuven’s glasses and his eye becomes injured so badly that doctors are unsure if it will heal, and he ends up in a hospital for a week. Once there, he meets people he will never…

All humans naturally desire wisdom. She reveals important truths about life, and leads those who follow her to godlier conduct and well-being. A good example of some of the teachings of wisdom can be found in The Chosen, by Chaim Potok. In Potok’s novel the protagonist, Reuven, a young Jewish student living in Boston during the Second World War, learns much about the world he lives in through the instructions wisdom gives him each day. Reuven’s life is not fast-paced or dangerous, but the…

In Chaim Potok’s novel, The Chosen, a reader is shown three significant events that affect the friendship of Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter. The first event that affects Danny and Reuven’s relationship is the conversation that Danny and Reuven have in the hospital after the baseball game in chapter one. The second event is when Reb Saunders places a communication ban between Reuven and Danny. The third event is when Danny, Reuven, and Reb Saunders meet to discuss Danny’s future. The first…

true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” This quote intelligently states with hidden meaning that two people do not have to think exactly the same way, or live near each other to remain friends. In The Chosen by Chaim Potok, the many different friendships that develop also reflect the meanings behind this quote. The characters in the book do not always agree with each other, yet they keep open minds about ideas differing from their own and consequently grow much…

The book of Hebrews was written as letter to Hebrew people as a way to urge the acceptance of Jesus as the Messiah. In chapter eleven, the author, who is still disputed among scholars, is declaring a definition of faith and accounting for acts of faith displayed by the Jewish people throughout their history. The first verse of the chapter states, “Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen” (Holman Christian Standard Bible, Hebrews 11.1). From this quote, faith…

In our world we have many kinds of fathers. What is a father? A father is a tool for reproduction. Reproduction happens all the time in the world. Plants reproduce, animals reproduce even humans reproduce. Seemingly unrelated, these examples share one similarity, the reproduction of nature. Each kind bears offspring of its own kind, that entails offspring of their own nature (e.g. lions produce lions, humans produce human babies and trees produces saplings). Commonly used in the New Testament,…

grow up in particular realities-a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we’re brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it”(Chaim Potok). The definition of a relationship between man and women has adjusted with our ever changing society, while some people are able to adapt with societies modifications, others are too intune with the ideals they grew up with. In Tennessee…

“There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.”(pg 6) This quote describes Maycomb, the setting of the novel. Maycomb is a small confined town in the south where nothing appears to happen or change. The reason behind the monotonous cycle is the state of the people being of having no surplus income, nothing valuable to buy, and the idea that there is nothing worthwhile outside of town. From the…