The Chosen By Chaim Potok Summary

In Proverbs 18:15 “The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, for the ears of the wise seek it out.” In the book The Chosen by Chaim Potok, The similarities or the characters through the entirety of the book, in the book, David, Danny, and Reuven all share the love for knowledge and wanting to know more and more every day about everything and anything they can get their hands on. The love and pursuit of knowledge with these three men is a very interesting, in how much they love to learn and they want for more and more knowledge.
David, the father of Reuven, possess the want to know all he could, and pass it on to his son the love of knowledge and wisdom. "If a person comes to apologize for having hurt you, you must listen and forgive
At Danny’s house they study read and talk over religious materials, but always reading and talking about what they read and discussing is with each other asking one another opinions, always picking at each others brains, testing one another. Understand the knowledge giving to him and wanting more and more. "You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it.'"(p. 262) he can even learn from silence its self, the knowledge in leaning from silence.
Through out the whole book, these three characters constantly looking for ways to understand the world around them and read and listen everything they can get their hands on. The knowledge in the most powerful thing in the world, “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” Kofi Annan said this in a speech of his as secretary general of United Nations. Each of these three people love knowledge and learning and try to get anything they can to increase their