Silence is the lack of audible sound or presence of sounds of very low intensity. By analogy‚ the word silence can also refer to any absence of communication or hearing‚ including in media other than speech and music. Chaim Potok’s working title for The Chosen could may have been A Time for Silence. This type of language is present throughout the novel‚ although its importance is obscure until the novel’s resolution. Silence is alternately frightening‚ confusing‚ warm‚ and welcome‚ but it always leads to
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freak accident during the game sends one to the hospital with an injury that nearly costs him an eye. The near loss of the boy’s eye creates a bond between the boys which develops into a deep and lasting friendship. Both boys‚ Reuven and Danny‚ are the sons of European immigrants. In The Chosen‚ by Chaim Potok‚ the boys feel the pull of the "American Dream" with its promise of boundless opportunity and freedom of choicesomething quite alien to their European forebears. The boys instinctively sense
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Silence is the complete absence of sound. Many people experience silence as a consequence‚ or for a lesson learned. In The Chosen‚ Danny Saunders is raised in silence‚ and the only way he communicates with his father is through Reuven Malter‚ the buffer of the father-son relationship. I’ve also experienced silence in the class Silence Walk. While frustrating‚ silence can make you open up and listen to not only your surroundings but also yourself. In having a day of silence‚ my mind wandered off.
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wanted to get across. In Chaim Potok’s book The Chosen‚ the author wrote about the faith of Reuven and Danny and the pressures they received from their communities and fathers. Reuven and Danny surprised their fathers and the reader with their ironic choices. The prominence of irony in Chaim Potok’s book The Chosen can be seen when Reuven planned to become a rabbi‚ Danny went to graduate school‚ and when these two friends nearly switched their chosen career paths. Mr. Malter‚ Reuven’s father‚ worked
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Katherine Forbert December 4‚ 2012 Ms. Dixon 4th period Criminal Justice III Honors 2nd Quarter Research Project Danny Rolling On August 20 1990‚ the university town of Gainesville‚ Florida was ranked as being the thirteenth best place to live in the United States by Money magazine. By the end of the week‚ American papers had renamed the town "Grisly Gainesville" after the bodies of five young students had been discovered brutally murdered and mutilated as they slept in their
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Danny Bowman was only 19 years old when he almost lost his life because of his social media addiction. He dropped out of school‚ never left his house‚ lost an unhealthy amount of weight‚ and attempted suicide‚ because he was obsessed with being his own personal model. He tried cleaning himself up to take the perfect photo‚ although he became so obsessed with this photo that he developed an unhealthy addiction. Bowman reported spending up to 10 hours a day and snapping over 200 photos on his iPhone
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The Chosen by Chaim Potok is an interesting story that covers multiple motifs. It was published in 1967 by Ballantine Books. The characters show these motifs by their actions and thoughts. One of the motifs that stands out throughout the whole book is the idea of choosing versus being chosen. In book one the motif shows up in the location of Danny and Reuven. The two start off with opposing views of each other. The question is whether they chose to have those views‚ or whether their views were chosen
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emphasized respecting and reverence to patriarchy in his book The Chosen. In this book‚ the main characters‚ Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders‚ both have an amazing admiration for the fathers. Both their fathers have very distinct beliefs and Danny and Reuven show reverence to them in many ways. Not only do the boys obey their fathers but they do it with respect and they also take care of their fathers throughout the book. Danny and Reuven demonstrate a reverence to patriarchy through submission‚ taking
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Summer Reading Essay Rewrite and Revision The Chosen is a novel written by Chaim Potok that centers around two Jewish teens growing up in Brooklyn‚ New York in the 1940s‚ and their struggle to reach adulthood and determine what their personal beliefs and goals are. Through a conflict revolving around the relationship between a father and son‚ supporting details about the life and beliefs of members of the Jewish community during the 1940s‚ and by describing the growth of a character through the
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tziddik‚ or leader of his Jewish community‚ comes from a Hasidic background. Hasidim reflects extremely legalistic Jews. Clever and unique Danny‚ the eldest son of Reb owns a photographic memory and because of tradition he inherits his father position as tzaddik when Reb wants to hand it off to Danny. Contrarily‚ Mr. Malter‚ the father of Danny’s friend‚ Reuven‚ comes from a laid back sect of Judaism. Despite his liberalism in comparison to Hasidism‚ Mr. Malter exhibits a quality of insightful and
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