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Character Analysis Of Reuven Malter In The Chosen By Chaim Potok

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The author Chaim Potok uses three different methods to reveal the character of Reuven Malter in the novel The Chosen. Reuven Malter is a teenage boy who has a struggling and confusing friendship. Reuven is the narrator of the story whose dominant traits are being rude, mean, good, nice, honest, insecure, studious, unsure, unaware, and not forgiving. The three methods that were used to reveal these character traits of Reuven Malter in the novel The Chosen by Chaim Potok are what the character does, what the character says, and what other characters say about the character. The novel takes place in the 1940s during World War II in a Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The novel is about a struggling friendship between two Jewish boys that are growing up in Brooklyn, New York during the end of World War II. …show more content…

While Reuven was at a hospital, after getting hit in the eye at a baseball game, Danny, a Jewish boy who is also Reuven’s best friend, went to visit him .When Reuven saw Danny, he immediately dismissed Danny out of his room in a rude way. Danny left immediately. He understood that Reuven doubted Danny’s innocence. By the actions that the author made Reuven commit of being rude, he revealed that Reuven is a mean and rude person. When Danny came back to apologize to Reuven for hitting him in the eye during the baseball game, Reuven apologized too. Reuven apologized for the rude actions that he committed earlier in the morning when Danny came to visit. By his actions of apologizing, Reuven revealed he is a nice and good

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Reuven was glad that Danny came to visit again despite their previous encounter. after sending Danny away, he was surprised at his own actions and had come to regret it at the end. His own father reminded him that the Talmud says that if a person is willing to apologize for his own wrongdoing, then you must at least try to understand and forgive him and that is exactly what Reuven intends to do after feeling angry and depressed with himself from what he had said to Danny. Throughout this chapter, an unlikely friendship between the two boys develop. They begin to talk and learn more about one another rather than dwelling in fateful day of the ballgame; in other words, they let bygones be bygones.

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When they meet at the baseball field they judge each other based on rumors they have heard or by the actions of the team. Reuven thinks of them as the “whole snooty bunch of Hasidim” (Chosen 62). Reuven thought Danny was a malicious person because he knew that Danny purposely tried to hit him. But later when Reuven opened up to Danny and stopped being so judgmental, Reuven realized that Danny was kind and just needed a friend. When Reuven is hit with the baseball, there is a chance he might be blind.

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Reuven found a new appreciation of his health since he could have gone blind. Another example of perception change from the novel is when Reuven realizes Danny isn't how he appeared to be. During the story, Mr. Malter says “Things are always as they seem to be, Reuven?”. He says this because Reuven told him that it seemed like Danny hit him deliberately.

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