The Choses

In The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, the question of how one can ascend above the dirt, how one can give meaning to his/her life is considered. These are questions the world struggles with incessantly. The human race has always struggled with these questions, and each of us have embarked on journeys to find the meaning of life. Every person has tried to make his/her life meaningful in some way. Some people will bury themselves in their work, others look to faith to find the answers, and the rest will find meaning in a cause, a glorious cause, one filled with significance and righteousness. Potok answers the question of how one can make his/her life meaningful, and how one can rise above the dust with the answer of devoting one's life to a cause of meaning. I agree that a cause is the way to give meaning to one's life, how one becomes more than simply dust. Potok, literature, history, and my personal experience all come to the same conclusion: that devoting one's life to a cause is the way to add meaning to it, and the way to rise above the minimal standards. Devoting one's life to a cause is the commitment that brings meaning to one's life because one is willing to sacrifice anything and it makes one content knowing that this is his/her life's work, and it is a cause that he/she is willing to fight for. This is how one rises above the dust. This is how one brings meaning to his/her life. Mr. Malter is proof defending the answer that devotion to a cause is the way to add meaning to one's life, and how one rises above the dust. Mr. Malter is devoted to the Zionist cause. He believes so strongly in a Jewish state; he does not let anything come in his way. Not his health, nor anything else. This reveals just how devoted Mr. Malter is to a Jewish state. Mr. Malter recognizes that the time we have to live our life is insignificant, but one who makes meaning of his life is significant: “'. . . a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is