“I may climb perhaps to no great heights‚ but I will climb alone. A kiss is a rosy dot over the ’i’ of loving. A large nose is the mark of a witty‚ courteous‚ affable‚ generous and liberal man.” Cyrano de Bergerac a play by Edmond Rostand‚ which takes place in the seventeenth century France. The protagonist‚ Cyrano‚ is a poet who claims to have a “long” nose which makes him feel insecure and keeps him from revealing his love for his cousin Roxane. Conformity can create an equality and justice in
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Truly great leaders differ widely through cultures and generations‚ however certain traits remain consistent throughout. These traits follow the template of empathy‚ passion and a strong sense intuition; Chaim Potok illustrates a character that embodies this to a tee. In his acclaimed work The Chosen‚ themes such as family and religion are explored; David Malter‚ the protagonist’s father‚ plays an integral role in helping Reuven navigate the world. David also guides Danny Saunders‚ a boy roughly
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REB SAUNDERS It takes a lot of trusting character to be able to be a Jewish Rabbi‚ but not just anybody can do it‚ its passed on by generation by the chosen family to take on that path. In the Chosen‚ a fictional novel by Chaim Potok is a story of Reuben Malter is a traditional teenage orthodox Jew who befriends Danny Saunders‚ a Hasid‚ which his father happens to be the well known infamous Reb Saunders. The religious tensions grow as Danny begins leave the destiny of becoming the next generation
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LITERATURE TIMELINE Date | Literary Period | Authors/Works | 800-400 BC | This period was dominated by Homer and other Greek tragedians | The Iliad and The Odyssey by HomerOedipus the King by SophoclesMedea by Euripedes | 250 BC - AD 150 | Writers of the Roman Empire are most noted in this time period | Famous authors from this period: Virgil‚ Horace‚ and Ovid | 450-1066 | Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period | Beowulf The rise of haiku poetry Tale of Genji by Japanese writer Murasaki
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Bibliography: Potok‚ Chaim. My Name Is Asher Lev. New York: Knopf; [distributed by Random House‚ 1972. Print.
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pain come from something as simple as a glass in a wooden frame? Throughout the novel‚ My Name Is Asher Lev by Chiam Potok‚ much of inner characters are revealed through the symbol of the window. The mother‚ the father‚ and Asher all face many struggles and the use of the window helps one to understand them. To begin with‚ the mother‚ Rivkeh‚ is shown a great deal by the window. Potok writes‚ “About an hour after supper‚ it began to snow heavily. My mother and I stood at the living-room window‚ watching
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Genesis of the Old Testament‚ Abraham‚ father of Isaac‚ values the word of God above anything else‚ willing to suffer any consequence. His religious beliefs reign above all aspect of life‚ including the lives of his own children. In The Chosen‚ Chiam Potok presents the fathers of the novel as two modern religious men. Reb Saunders follows the Jewish Hasidic tradition impeccably‚ retaining the old‚ ultra-conservative traditional ways‚ whereas David Malter adapts his methods to the current era. The similarities
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the paintings. This causes a shocked and angry reaction from the public. The climax evolves towards the last chapter of My Name is Asher Lev‚ when Asher ’s parents react hurtingly after the paintings are exposed to them in the New York Museum. Chaim Potok writes their reaction as happening slowly in a step-by-step movement; in silences; building up readers ’ expectations of a negative outcome. <br> <br>Guilt and fear of disobedience induces a silence from Asher. "They ’re not the truth‚ Papa; but
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participating in their lives. The presence of a male figure is important for the development of a child as a human being and‚ in this case‚ as an artist and so is the notion of authority which is often related to the father figure. In his novel‚ Chaim Potok tells us the story of a boy named Asher Lev‚ from his early childhood in the Ladover Hasidic community in Brooklyn to his adulthood as a well-known and talented artist. Many male figures influence Asher‚ and each one brings certain elements to Asher’s
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The storyline follows a disillusioned teenager named Tom Henderson as he attempts to survive the daily sadism of high school‚ understand the opposite sex‚ start a band‚ and find some answers about his father’s mysterious death. The Chosen‚ by Chaim Potok. This is a classic novel about two teenage Jewish boys who form a friendship‚ though they come from very different worlds. The Book of Khalid‚ by Ameen Rihani. The novel‚ which is intensely autobiographical as Rihani himself immigrated as
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