The Chosen - Malter's Development

Title: The Chosen - Malter's Development
Category: Literature / English | Words: 772 | Pages: 3.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Chosen - Malter's Development

The Chosen - Malter's Development One of the most emotional scenes from Chaim Potok's The Chosen is when Reuven goes with Danny Saunders to talk to his father. Danny has a great mind and wants to use it to study psychology, not become a Hasidic tzaddik. The two go into Reb Saunders' study to explain to him what is going to happen, and before Danny can bring it up, his father does. Reb Saunders explains to …showed first 75 words of 772 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 772 total…porch and sees a fly trapped in a spider's web with the arachnid builder approaching. He blows on the fly, first softly, and then more harshly, and the fly is free and safe from the danger of the spider. This is a metaphor to Danny being trapped in the "filmy, almost invisible strands of the web" (165) that is a metaphor for the Hasidic clan that has Danny somewhat captured and expected to become a tzaddik.

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