In Chaim Potok’s The Chosen, Danny is a brilliant young Jewish child whose complex relationship with his Hasidic Jew father causes him to have conflicted views about his upbringing and the Jewish religious world. Meanwhile, he must forge friendships with his peer Reuven while struggling to understand and get along with his father. Silence is a substantial theme in The Chosen, both textually and subtextually. Danny often notes that he lives his live ‘in silence,’ and much of this is due to his upbringing by his father Rabbi Isaac ‘Reb’ Saunders. The lessons that the rabbi teaches him,
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