Reuven says that “Sometime during that half inning, one of the members of the yeshiva team had shouted at us in Yiddish, “Burn in hell, you apikorism!” and by the time that half inning was over and we were standing around Mr. Galanter near the wire screen, all of us knew that this was not just another ball game.” (Potok 26) This stereotyping and name-calling ensues during the game. Imagine a Hasid and someone called an Apikorism friends, difficult right? “”Sure, kid. But listen. You’re a good kid.
At the young age of 12, “during the day [he] studied the Talmud, and at night [he] ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple”(3). Elie attacked the faith with such a vigor that he, “asked [his] father to find [Elie] a master to guide [his] studies of the cabbala”, but his father responded, “you are too young for that... only at thirty that one had the right into the perilous world of mysticism”(1-2). At such a young age, Elie followed the Jewish faith with a vigor uncommon for his age; his father kept him grounded in a world of reason. Even when the Nazis were taking the Jews to the concentration camp (though they did not know where they were going), Elie, “got up at dawn. [he] wanted to pray before [the Jews] were expelled”(16) Even as Elie's freedoms vanished, he still maintained a sense of faith as a crutch.
“Casey at the Bat”, who has read this before? This poem is by Earnest Lawrence Thayer. It was written to inspire baseball fanatics around the world by using similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, rhyme, and repetition. “Casey at the Bat” is a narrative poem. It tells a story of how Casey gets behind in the count because he does not swing at the first two pitches.
Parents often sacrifice themselves for the benefit of their children. In the novel, The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, Reb Saunders, a Hasidic rabbi, sacrifices his relationship with his son Danny. Danny doesn’t want to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a rabbi and tzaddik. After many years of struggling, Reb announces to his son’s friend Reuven, “Let my Daniel be a psychologist. I have no more fear now.
REVIEW OF THE CHOSEN Gregory A Keels II CS501 People As Social and Cultural Beings October 26, 2012 You will come across very few stories that talks about the exciting journey about the tale of two young boys, their fathers, their friendship and the busy sometime confusing life they live. Through all of that you see the book The Chosen on the surface level this book is about two families who have different religious beliefs. However when you look deeper into the book it is so much more than that. This story is about two people Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders who was introduce to each other through a baseball game and help each other through their childhood and college years. This book was written by Chaim Potok.
Journal Assignment The book Maus is written by Art Spiegeleman, a son of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish Holocaust survivor. It is not a conventional book, Art writes his dad's survival story as a novel, a documentary, and a comic book. While on its surface it appears to be a documentary of a Holocast survivor, the central narrative of the book deals extensively with the relationship between Vladek and his son. It seems that Art wrote his dad's story as a way of coping with his own feelings of guilt. As I started to read this book, I could not put it down, mainly because the relationship between Vladek and Artie resembles the relationship of my dad and my grandfather.
You read in his chart that: He is conscious and has fractures in both hips. He is waiting for surgery. * He needs assistance with bathing and dressing. * He is at risk of getting pressure ulcers. It is hard to re-position him because he has a lot of pain.
They become friends with each other after Danny nearly blinds him during a softball game. He also serves as a line of communication between Danny and his father, who doesn’t speak to Danny much, only when they discuss the Talmud. Although Reuven and Danny become friends, Reuven doesn’t like his father because of his harsh treatment of Danny. Furthermore, he commands that Danny be forbidden to have any connection with Reuven because of his Zionist views. Danny Saunders is a fifteen year old Hasidic boy going to a different school than Reuven.
Every system in my body was shot. I just didn’t know which organ was going to explode on me first”. He was so determined to become Mr. Olimpia that he worked out seven hours a day (that’s almost a third of an entire day). He even took steroids and other harmful drugs, knowing that it would be bad for his body. It got so bad that his body was starting to shut down and have cancerous tumors.
Now, as a grown man, I feel privileged to have come from two worlds. My view of the world is not merely that of a black man but that of a black man with something of a Jewish soul.” This quote by the author found on page 103 summarizes his coming to peace with the struggle that he endured throughout the book. He went through a difficult time growing up and trying to figure out who he was. As a child he generally was ashamed of his mother’s race and tried to hide it. As an adult he has realized it has made him who he is today.