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Summary: A FUNNY FEELING ABOUT THE CHOSEN
Review: The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, is a great book filled with meaning. It also has its down times like most of the book. Waste would be a suitable word for describing most of the filler chapters in this book. However, this book is great for the little children or young adults to read because of its meaning and age of the characters. In my opinion, the plot was incredibly bad. The lessons and morals could have been expressed just the same in a book with a different, more exciting plot. However, overall, if you condensed the book to all its important parts all together, then you might have a quite decent school book. But then you still got the problem of the bad plot. And it would only be a couple of pages.
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Summary: A novel about the relationships between fathers and sons.
Review: The book, The chosen by Chaim Potok was a great novel telling about the lives of two different jewish boys. This book was fairly intesting because it told of the lives of two boys who have different religous beliefs. They live their lives happily as friends, not caring what anyone has to say about them. In a small part of the city of Brooklyn, New York, there are many types of jewish people. The book described what it was like to be a jewish boy in the big city. Chaim Potok titled it The Chosen because these two boys were the ones chosen to represent their jewish communities. The book told a lot of things that most people would not know about the jewish religion. The Chosen is a good teenagers book and might be a good novel for a family memberto read. I reccomend this for many people to read it is a great novel.
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Summary: This book has excellent values
Review: Although I didn't particularly like how the book was written, I did like the values Chaim Potok was trying to bring to the reader. In his book The Chosen he writes about two boys who at first don't care for each other at all, but work at their relationship and turn out to be best friends. Not only do they not like each othe at first, but one of them is a Hasidic Jew while the other one is a Orthodox Jew. Normally, the Hasidics are not very nice to the Orthodox Jews becasue they don't think that they practice the religion according to the Bible. But the two boys get around this obstacle. Chaim Potok conveys the message that no matter how different two people are they can still work together and become good friends. Another relationship that develops in the story is between the father and the son, especially between Reb and Danny Saunders. Reb, who is Danny's father, doesn'tspeak to him with wordes, but by example. So there really isn't much dialogue going on between Danny and Reb. This example show that people show affection for each other in different ways. Even if it doesn't seem as though somebody loves you, the person probably does but is showing it in a way you can't figure out. This is a bokk almost anyone can relate to and learn from.
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Summary: the chosen is phat $$$$$$$
Review: in my opinion, The Choosen is a good hook, but not nearly as good as some others that I have read! This novel taught me a lot about the Jewish religion in general, mostly because of Danny and Reuven's differences in opinion. It can drag at some points though! For instance, when Danny and Reuven are forbiden to see each other! And from the time when they begin colleage to the ending, there are some parts where little action takes place! That's why I gave it three stars!!!!
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Summary: Fulfillment and Disapointment
Review: After spending part of my summer vaction reading Chaim Potok's novel The Chosen, I felt that I learned more about the Jewish religion, but I was also a little disappointed. The Chosen is a novel of two Jewish boys growing up under different Jewish customs in the 1940's. Reuven Malter, the main character in the book is an Orthodox Jew, and Danny Saunders, the other boy is Hasidic. Since the two are different in religious ways, Danny being more serious about his beliefs, and Reuven being more relaxed, there is a lot of tension between the two at first, but they get around that and evolve to become best friends. I felt disappointed after reading this because I expected much more. It has wonderful reviews, so I expected non-stop excitement. At times the book was fun to read and interesting, but most of the time it was rather monotonous.I give this book two of five stars.
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Summary: A wonderful, heart-warming treasure.
Review: When I first heard of this book, I was a little skeptical, but after I'd read it, WOW!! I don't think I've ever read such a book in all of my life. I made want to laugh, cry, be angry... I've read it over and over again and I still can't get enough. I recommend this book to everyone, young and old.
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Summary: The Chosen is an extraordinary book.
Review: After recently viewing a public television special on Hasidic Jews, I found reading The Chosen to be a very special experience. The author depicts in a very sensitive manner the relationship between two teenagers who come from very different Jewish backgrounds. Also, Potok portrays beautifully the loving relationships between fathers and sons. He focuses on the pain parents and children must endure when children do not choose to follow the expectations of their parents. This is a wonderful coming of age book that I recommend for teenagers and adults alike.
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Summary: The Chosen is overrated
Review: The Chosen is ok for a general book. But as a classic it is not that good. It was a deptessing tale about two people that could not be friends because of religous differences. What religion in this age? nothing any more decremination will be almost completely terminated in 100 years so Chaim took people's time to read about a unrealistic plot and it has become a classic! I could write about me and my friend's father that had some differences so then we can't be friends. For a plot this stupid it was an excellent book but the plot was to radical.
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Summary: Touching Story About Diversity
Review: I just loved all the irony in this book! Two boys, one an orthodox ad one an unorthodox Jew, become good friends in New York City. They both are in truth unorthodox, but almost everything else about them is different. Danny, the son of a tzaddik, an orthodox rabbi, does not wish to continue the rabbi "dynasty". The other boy, Rueven, the son of a pro-Zionism demonstrater wishes to become a rabbi despite the fact that his father would perfer for him to be a university professor. Touching! Emotional! A true allegory as well!
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Summary: A Must Read!
Review: Possibly one of the best books that I have read ever. It taught me a lot obout the joys and heartaches of a truly great friendship. A quick review of my life led me to the realisation that some of the best things in life coming out of 'ordinary things'. A fact which amazes Reuven Malter as well. I have read this book over and over again and each time I discover a little piece of wisdom that I had missed before. A truly inspiring book!
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