People always gain valuable personalities and qualities in tough environments whether mentally or physically. In the book The Chosen written by Chaim Potok, Danny Saunders who is son of a prestigious Hasidic Rabbi bears numerous pressures and restrictions. Because of the succeed tradition of Hasidic Rabbi, Danny has to become a Rabbi when he grew up and take his father’s place and responsibility. However, Danny dissatisfies with only learning Talmud. He longs for the outside world and secular knowledge. Having the gift of extraordinary retentive memory helps him remembers fast and seems much more smatter than other children. Tough environments give Danny characters of studious, thoughtful, and lonely. Being son of Hasidic Jews Rabbi and Hasidic people’s role model, Danny confronts high expectation from his people. With guidance from his father, Danny learned Talmud profoundly. Reb Saunders, Danny’s father, always questions him, and have debates on paragraphs of Torah with him. Danny enjoys these interactions with his father, however, he gradually shows more interests on psychology which his father who thinks it is secular and dangerous …show more content…
Though he has friends at school, he is lonely from the heart, because all friends at school revere Danny’s father, he cannot share his forbidden interest or thoughts with them. The accident of baseball game links him to Reuven fatefully. Through conversations, he finds he and Reuven have some same interests and perspectives. From then on, Danny treats Reuven as a person who can shares thoughts, feelings, and secrets with. He even invites Reuven to his home and introduces Reuven to his father. Danny carries a lot in his mind, and not much people can comprehend him until being friend with Reuven, but there is only Reuven understands him. “He said, and he had no one else to talk to bout it except me”