Analysis Of The Chosen By Chaim Potok

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“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood” - Lucius Annaeus Seneca. The Chosen by Chaim Potok is a book about two boys named Reuven Malter and Danny Sanders portraying the beauty of an understandable friendship after the tragic event at the school’s baseball game. Using hypophora and diction, Potak reveals that a true friendship between two people occurs when they truly understand and forgive each other mistakes in life.
When Reuven’s father, David Malter, visits him to check on his eyes after the baseball tragic where he asks his son to befriend with Danny, the boy who accidently hit the ball to Reuven’s eyes during the game, or at least get to know him yet his son rejects, David questions
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