"The Chosen"

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This paper analyzes the film, "The Chosen", which is a coming of age movie that adapted from a novel by the same name written by Chaim Potok in 1967. The paper discusses how "The Chosen" is an outstanding work of social and emotional significance and how its messages of the relationships between fathers and sons, boys and the pressure from their peers to conform, and the various methods of expressing one's faith are poignantly portrayed and creatively rendered.

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"In the movie, the Hasidim are represented primarily through the relationship between Danny and his father, Rabbi (Reb) Isaac Saunders. Most visually striking is the initial scene of the baseball game between the two Jewish parochial schools with the Hasidic boys playing baseball in their black trousers, buttoned-to-the-chin white shirts, and prayer shawls. When Reuven prays at the Hasidic shul, you can see by his reactions that the reverence paid by the men is greater than anything he has previously experienced. The entire first day the Reuven spends with Danny is filled with expressions of awe by this young, Westernized Jew. Further visual distinctions are made later in the movie in the Danny's bedroom when Reuven is spending the night with Danny, who sleeps in his prayer shawl and yarmulke and with the contrast between the activities of the men and the singularly domestic activities of the women. "

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