Friends or Enemies?

Friends or Enemies

Through the course of the novel it is shown that it is not just a story but the author is focusing on the importance of relationships as the issues in the society he is living in come to surface.

Chaim Potok’s The Chosen is an analysis of Society and the Individual. Through this analysis, Potok focuses on the key theme of the importance of relationships. During a time when the world was uneasy, Potok wrote The Chosen as a means of trying to understand what was happening in society. Through the characters he explores the issues like Religion, education, family, interests and careers, which relates to the theme of the importance of relationships.

Religion in The Chosen provides a solid yet confusing link in the friendship of Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter, as the boys are from different religious sects of Judaism. The first conflict between the two begins at a baseball game when Danny injures Reuven. The game turns into a religious war between Hasidic...