Blindness In The Chosen

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Blindness I have met many people in my life, polite, funny, and accomplished, but the type of person that stands out the most to me is an arrogant person. Arrogant people exhibit self-importance, and disregard for others, meaning that they are into themselves more so than others. Because of their self-interest, they are blind to their own problems. This blindness they demonstrate permits them to be ignorant of the problems they display. Everyday I am affected by arrogant people, they make me feel that society has failed, and we are back in an age were people act as others superior. In The Chosen by Chaim Potok, blindness is an important part of many significant events that play a key part in the story. During a softball game against Danny’s team, Reuven was hit in the eye by a softball. This affected his vision and was sent to a hospital for treatment. Reuven felt blind to the world during his time in the hospital. His trouble with his eyesight was used as a metaphor to describe his blindness of the world. After Reuven got out of the hospital he was driving home with his father when Reuven thought, “We took a cab and on the way home my father handed me my other pair of glasses… The world jumped into focus and everything looked suddenly bright and fresh and clean… and there was newness everywhere, a feeling that I had been away a long time in a dark place and was now returning to sunlight.”(95) This quote exhibits Reuven’s time in the darkness when he was blind. When he put on the glasses he felt that he came back from being blind and he could then appreciate his eyesight. During this novel President Roosevelt died. This death was very hard for everyone to handle, because he had been president for over fifteen years, and had brought the country through the Great Depression. Once he died, the people of the country felt blind because they did not know what to do
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