Parallels Between Characters In The Chosen By Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok in his novel, The Chosen, uses parallels between characters to compliment one another by sharing knowledge and contrasting one another. There are two particular characters that are especially prominent. Reuven and Danny are both raised as American Jews and are the same age, at times they build and learn off of one another as they grow up together. Danny’s photographic memory makes memorizing things easy, but at times he struggles with other subjects. Potok writes, “Two blatt? I stared at him. That was four pages of Talmud a day. If I did one page a day, I was delighted” (Potok 73). Some things Reuven finds easy that Danny struggles with and they use this to teach each other throughout their childhood. Reuven says, “I told him [Danny’s