What happens in chapter 2 of The Chosen?
Galanter and Reuven arrive at Brooklyn Memorial Hospital. A young doctor examines Reuven, who is feeling increasingly nauseous and dizzy. After the doctor realizes that Reuven was wearing glasses when he was hit, he calls in two more doctors to look at his eye, including Dr. Snydman, a warm and sympathetic eye expert.
How does the book The Chosen end?
In The Chosen, Reb Saunders chooses to free Danny on the first day of Passover. By freeing Danny, he also frees himself, Reuven, and David.
What does Reuven learn about Danny’s sister?
Reuven tries to talk about Danny’s sister but Danny won’t. He says that his sister was promised to be married when she was two years old. Danny says that he pities his father because he is a great man but is intellectually trapped. Danny believes that he is trapped as well.
Why is Reuven in the hospital?
Mr. Galanter, the coach of Reuven’s softball team, takes Reuven to Brooklyn Memorial Hospital, where Reuven has surgery to remove glass from his left eye.
Who is Mr Savo?
Tony Savo. A patient who occupies one of the hospital beds next to Reuven. Tony Savo’s speech, which he peppers with boxing terms, reflects his former career as a professional prizefighter.
What does Reuven want to be when he grows up?
Main characters. Reuven (Robert or Bobby) Malter: a Modern Orthodox Jew, and a teenage boy. He is smart, popular in his community, and has a head for mathematics and logic. His father wants him to be a mathematician when he grows up, but he desires to become a rabbi.
What decision does Danny make at the end of the novel?
Danny and Reuven’s conversation in Chapter 12 concerning first Danny’s brother, then Danny’s sister, then Danny’s father, and finally Danny himself foreshadows Danny’s decision to reject the inherited position of leader of his Hasidic community at the end of the novel.
Why was the book called The Chosen?
The novel’s title refers to the idea that the Jews are God’s chosen people and therefore hold special privileges and responsibilities. Both Danny and Reuven fulfill their duty by studying Jewish liturgy, and they derive great pleasure from Jewish traditions.
Why is Reuven shocked that Danny’s learning German?
Danny then tells Reuven about the psychology text he has been reading concerning dreams and the unconscious. Danny says he has been studying German so that he can read Freud, and Reuven is astonished, thinking about the parallels between Danny and Solomon Maimon.
Why was Danny Saunders raised in silence?
He decided to raise Danny in silence, understanding that it would drive Danny away from becoming a rabbi, because he felt it was most important that Danny’s “soul would be the soul of a tzaddik no matter what he did with his life.”
How are Danny and Reuven different?
Reuven Malter is a Zionist who dresses modernly and enjoys modern inventions such as movies and the radio. Danny Saunders is the complete opposite of him, a Hassidic who dresses like his ancient ancestors of the faith and is extremely orthodox.
What does Danny want to be in the chosen?
Danny is being groomed to succeed his father, Reb Saunders, as the leader, or tzaddik, of a group of Hasidic Jews. But Danny does not want to follow this path — an intellectual person with a brilliant mind, he wants to be a psychologist.