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 up all his life with a future already chosen for him by the customs of his Jewish family's religion. However, Danny's dream is not to become a rabbi and for him to acco…