Characters Depicted In The Chosen

What does it mean to be strong willed? Three characters in the book The Chosen show us what it means. Reuven Malter is a teenage boy who has a strict life and recently overcame a terrible accident. He holds so much hate inside of him and refuses to let it go.The most serious man, Reb saunders. He has so much passion for what he does and knows exactly what he wants to do and why. Now a funny man who doesn't want to anyone to show him pity, he knows how to make the best out of something even when ti changes his life traumatically. Being strong willed is not a bad thing and in these three cases it actually helps them to see better things and live a grand life.

When Reuven was in the hospital he had a large amount of hate just boiling up inside of him. He hated Danny Saunders for everything that he had done to him, and what he had caused him. Reuven felt that he would never forgive Danny and would hate him forever. "I moved my wrist slowly. It still hurt. That Danny Saunders was a smart one, and I hated him.” Even though he wanted to hate Danny and never wanted to talk to him or even see him again, he found it in his heart to forgive him. Reuben was stubborn and strong willed but all of that went away when he saw what he
Almost to hard to figure out completely, he seems to barely talk and not talk to his son but he also seems to care a lot. In everything Reb Saunders does he does to teach the Talmud or help people to better understand it. He lives his life very seriously and rarely smiles. But everything that Reb Saunders does he has a reason for, "My father himself never talked to me, except when we studied together. He taught me with silence. He taught me to look into myself, to find my own strength, to walk around inside myself in company with my soul.” Red Saunders says as explaining why he does not talk to Danny very often. He knows what he does and he knows why and he would not change for anyone