The Chosen Critique

Critique: The Chosen In Potok's story, The Chosen, the author creates a character in which a lonely, determined young boy named Danny, growing up in Brooklyn at the end of World War II is trying to overcome the battle between his father's religious world and traditions, and the secular world in which he longs to be set free to. Because Danny's father, Reb Saunders, is the rabbi for a great Hasidic dynasty, Danny has grown …

…to overcome this battle between the two worlds and spends his free time doing things his father would not approve because it is against his beliefs such as reading books, speaking to people and creating friendships and taking a profession not as a rabbi but as psychologist in the secular world. For Danny to accomplish his dreams and to step out of the religious world, he had to rebel against his father's wishes for him.